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The First Airacobra

Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:14 pm

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XP-39 :?:

Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:30 pm

I always think of a hummingbird when I see em.

Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:20 pm

She was a beautiful little rocket ship. Thanks for sharing.

Jack, I believe that's actually one of the YP-39's. The XP-39 had a vertical stabilizer with a narrower chord than the example in your pic.

Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:49 pm

the days before they fattened it up into an aira anaconda & ruined it's performance!! :lol: classic pic though!!!

Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:14 am

So this is the very fisrt Airacobra :idea: Hhhmmmm- I still have one unbuilt kit in 1/48 and I should check out on the available documentation about what to do and convert to get this machine

Nice image Jack- thank you :P
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