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Offline Bronk

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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2007, 08:33:51 AM »
After some reading this AM . I'd have to ask for the N2 model as well.

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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2007, 08:39:45 AM »
If no Yak-3 of any type, this would be my second choice.

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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2007, 08:51:03 AM »
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If no Yak-3 of any type, this would be my second choice.


Should be your first.:D
Had to pry those Russian aces out of the P-39

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« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2007, 10:25:11 AM »
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Had to pry those Russian aces out of the P-39

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That's because they were dead.  :lol

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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2007, 10:55:07 AM »
I would rather see the P-63 over the P-39. I just think it is an all around better plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-63_Kingcobra

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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2007, 10:56:49 AM »
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I would rather see the P-63 over the P-39. I just think it is an all around better plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-63_Kingcobra

So would I but it's not in the selection given.

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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2007, 12:43:27 PM »
O.K. I give in because the P-63 isn't on list....P-39Q,which will fare just about as well as all the other early war aeroplanes do!Anyone want to venture a guess on who made that big old spud shooter in the nose of the P-39?kindda surprised me.
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2007, 01:37:41 PM »
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I have always wondered why the russians shot down so many of their own planes....  :D :D :D


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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2007, 04:33:52 PM »
I would like to fly it ( p-39)

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« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2007, 08:58:27 AM »
OK times up no answers on who made 37mm for the P39....Oldsmobile,and my guess it was farmed out to others.Good ol US of A car manufacturers came thru in fine fashion!
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« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2007, 09:34:06 AM »
I wouldn't brag about the Oldsmobile 37mm cannon, and I'm an Oldsmobile owner. It was an unreliable piece of crap. It jammed frequently, and just wasn't much good for anything other than ballast. May not have been Oldsmobile's fault, I doubt they designed it.
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« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2007, 10:18:04 AM »
Yes to the P-39N.

As for the P-63A, even declassified Russian sources do not point to it being used untill the very end of the war in the ETO. Most of them were kept in the Far East for the coming invasion of Japan.

In early May 1945 9GIAD which was Pokryshkins unit, received some 36 of them but decided not to bother converting to it as it was deemed a waste of time. 5GIAD also received the P-63s but did not convert to them for the same reason.

This isnt surprising in that there was virtually no air combat with the LW in the last weeks of the war, almost all VVS sorties were ground attack, recon, ect. Air combat as a priority just wasnt there any more, and you didnt need new P-63s to strafe retreating German Volks infantry, and horse drawn carts.

They saw very limited action against the Japanese for a few weeks in August 1945, scoring 2 kills.

Had the atomic bomb not been dropped, perhaps it would have seen its day, but like the F8F Bearcat, its chance to do any real air combat was snuffed out.  Fortunes of war.
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« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2007, 10:20:54 AM »
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Yes to the P-39N.

As for the P-63A, even declassified Russian sources do not point to it being used untill the very end of the war in the ETO. Most of them were kept in the Far East for the coming invasion of Japan.

In early May 1945 9GIAD which was Pokryshkins unit, received some 36 of them but decided not to bother converting to it as it was deemed a waste of time. 5GIAD also received the P-63s but did not convert to them for the same reason.

This isnt surprising in that there was virtually no air combat with the LW in the last weeks of the war, almost all VVS sorties were ground attack, recon, ect. Air combat as a priority just wasnt there any more, and you didnt need new P-63s to strafe retreating German Volks infantry, and horse drawn carts.

They saw very limited action against the Japanese for a few weeks in August 1945, scoring 2 kills.

Had the atomic bomb not been dropped, perhaps it would have seen its day, but like the F8F Bearcat, its chance to do any real air combat was snuffed out.  Fortunes of war.


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« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2007, 10:24:51 AM »
It shouldn't be there either.

Nuff said.

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« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2007, 10:28:09 AM »
Precedent has been set.
The P-63 fills the qualifications.

Can't put the genie back in the bottle now.
:p :D


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