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The curious Bell Airacuda was despite its size and appearance of a fighter. This was an extremely modern pocket fighters design in 1937 when the plane was flown for the first time and had a number of innovative solutions, more came later in the production and others of good reasons not ... Bell YFM-1 Airacuda, where "M" stood for Multi Place was more a advanced weapons platform that was supposed to act as escort plan for bombers and also as pure fighter with different types of armaments, and even take a small bomb load. The oddest with the plane were the two engine nacelles pocket fighters with room for a gunner in each, separated from the rest of the crew, except these were radio operator amidships also arming the field of fire backwards. The plane had, as I said many innovative details, so many of the planet were both too heavy and slower than the bombers, fighter who was armed to the teeth, but could not maneuver for "dogfight" either. With a bomb load of only 270 kg was not anything outstanding in the gebitet either. The slim gondolas pocket fighters with pushing propellers gave admittedly low air resistance, but instead gave overheated engines and the more fussy bitten when this took place in the air was that it was not able to fly on one engine. In short Airacuda a shining pocket fighters example of how not to build aircraft, despite that were built still 13 pieces and put together to form a squadron operational plan between pocket fighters the years 1938-40. Its task was a little different too, these planes were flown between pocket fighters air bases in the US to pilots in training pocket fighters would be given the chance to test fly and add this unusual plan in their logs. Which was also a meninslös task when pilots had no reason to school himself on a plane they would never fly. 1942, all Airacuda scrapped. In short, everything was around Airacuda perverse, irrational and complicated, but it was the first step towards what we see today in fighter aircraft, multirole aircraft that are technologically advanced pocket fighters ocvh flexible weapons platforms with wings more than clean aircraft.
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