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Bell P-39 Airacobra

Bell P-39 Airacobra

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Search complete. 6 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Bell P-39 Airacobra".

Oct 22, 2026

AirSpace

AirSpace

The Ballad of Willie Watkins

Oct 22 · 1 Mention

Roger ConnorGUEST
21:35
And then it appears that he was part of one of the fighter groups that was moving aircraft down to North Africa.
Roger ConnorGUEST
21:45
So he's ferrying a P-39 Airacobra.
Roger ConnorGUEST
21:48
And he makes a forced landing on this beach after running out of gas, but he flips the plane over.
Roger ConnorGUEST
21:53
Fortunately, the Era Cobra was a fairly easy plane to get out because it had doors on the side rather than a canopy that pulled back.
Thrillers Old Time Radio

Thrillers Old Time Radio

430821_-_Malta_Spitfire

Oct 19 · 1 Mention

Joe JulianVOICE_ACTOR
27:48
When you think of him, when you think of how he and others like him were a team, a team that helped the convoys through the turning of the tide and held Malta, then think also of that earlier kid.
Joe JulianVOICE_ACTOR
28:02
[plane engines roaring] That's an Airacobra.
Joe JulianVOICE_ACTOR
28:07
The future belongs to him, the future of a world that kids like George Burling are helping rid forever of fascists and fascism.
Joe JulianVOICE_ACTOR
28:15
[triumphant music]

Unknown podcast

Bessie Coleman, Queen Bess, and the Chicago Manicurist Who Learned French to Earn the World's Most Hard-Won Pilot Certificate

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
8:12
They escorted bombers and never lost one to enemy fighter attack.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:15
They flew P-40 Warhawks and P-39 Airacobras, and eventually P-51 Mustangs, and they did it with a level of discipline and professionalism that made senior white officers change their minds about a great many things.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:28
Draw a line from Bessie Coleman to Tuskegee, and you are drawing a straight line.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:32
Not the only line, not the only cause, but a real and documented influence.

Unknown podcast

Tex Johnston, the Barrel Roll Over Lake Washington, and the Day Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Sold an Airplane the Only Way He Knew How

Oct 15 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
1:34
Tex went the other direction.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:35
He learned to fly before the Second World War, then spent the war years as a test pilot for Bell Aircraft, putting the P-39 Air Cobra and the P-63 King Cobra through their paces.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:45
After the war he did a stint at the Piper Aircraft Corporation and then in 1948, Boeing hired him as their chief of experimental test flight.
Tail DraggerHOST
1:52
Boeing in the late 40s and early 50s was a company at a crossroads.

Unknown podcast

The Glacier Girl, the P-38 Lightning Buried Under Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice, and the Eleven-Year Restoration That Brought Her Home Sixty Years Later

Oct 15 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
8:38
By the early 2000s, the supply of overhauled flying Allisons was not what it used to be.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:43
The V-1710 had powered the P-38, the P-39 Airacobra, the P-40 Warhawk, and a handful of other types.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:49
and the warbird world had been working through the surviving examples for decades.
Tail DraggerHOST
8:53
Carden's team tracked down two good cores and had them rebuilt to airworthy condition.
The Iferia Techcast

The Iferia Techcast

Aerospace Engineering, Alternate WWII History & Warbirds - Jeff Kildow | Ep 361

Oct 15 · 1 Mention

Jeff KildowGUEST
11:42
And the, the result of that is there are, still today, there are World War II wrecks scattered across Siberia where the, the airplane wasn't really ready to fly yet, you know? Uh, another story related to that that, uh, always made me chuckle, one of his friends was a pilot, and the, the fellow was out there, and he was able to find a Russian that spoke a little bit of English.
Jeff KildowGUEST
12:07
And they were looking at a, uh, a Bell P-39 with Russian markings on it.
Jeff KildowGUEST
12:14
And the American fellow says, "Well, what do you think of this American airplane?" And the Russian looked at him and said, "Russian airplane."[laughs]
Ezekiel IferiaHOST
12:24
Okay.

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