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Jack Cook
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XP-39 :?:

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I always think of a hummingbird when I see em.

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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.

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

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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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