Talk:Bell P-59 Airacomet

Back to life
In case anyone is interested, a P-59A is about to come back to life and return to the skies over Southern California some time in late 2004 to early 2005.

It is being restored by The Air Museum Planes of Fame in Chino, California, and is on display in their jet hanger. The all-volunteer team spends every Saturday restoring it to flight status, and they will soon be featured in an upcoming article in the Smithsonian Magazine.

You can learn more by visiting www.PlanesOfFame.com. Hope you get to see it!

The title needs to be corrected. The P-59 was the original piston-engined aircraft. The jets were all P-59As. --squadfifteen

Surviving P-59As
There are a number of surviving P-59As, so just mentioning the example at the Museum of the USAF is inadequate. The P-59A in the Milestones of Flight Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum is more notable. Willy Logan 21:07, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I put that there. The reason I didn't add others is because I didn't know of others.  I am certainly not saying that this is the most important museum that has a P-59, in fact, I intended for the list to be expanded by other editors.  If you know of other locations, please add them.  There aren't that many aerospace museums around that you couldn't just list all of them that have a P-59.  That way if someone reads this article, they might find a place nearby where they can see one.   --Rogerd 21:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Amusing (apochryphal?) story about the P-59
http://untoldvalor.blogspot.com/2007/07/funny-story-about-uss-first-jet.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.189.217.40 (talk) 02:47, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

prop
I would like to say that during testing fake propellers were added to disguise the planes.--Commander v99 (talk) 22:28, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


 * There's an interesting contemporary official Bell film on the development of the P-59 on YouTube here:

Picture of the wind tunnel model is incorrect.
The wind tunnel model shown is actually a model of the Bell XP-52. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.160.162.242 (talk) 20:11, 26 December 2013


 * Which, "picture of the wind tunnel model"? I can't see any such photo here. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:01, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

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