3ru_p_63a.zip 2024-06-05

P-63A - OLGA
CFS3 - V2.83.59
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CFS3 P-63A - OLGA
This aircraft was built by SARGE using version 2.83.59 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the visual created by Jerry Beckwith and painted by Will Hunter. Please see the original readme file for more information.
Olga is the plane the P-39 should have been.
On September 29, 1942, the US Army ordered full-scale production of the Kingcobra. The first production version of the Kingcobra was the P-63A (Bell Model 33).
Deliveries of production P-63As began in October of 1943. However, the US Army examined the P-63A at Eglin Field, Florida and concluded that it was unsuitable for service with the USAAF as a combat aircraft, even though test pilots spoke favorably of its characteristics, and its performance was comparable with that of other fighters of the time. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union had a need for a high-altitude fighter (where the P-39 was deficient), and it was thought that the P-63 might be a natural choice for them, combining good high-altitude performance with excellent ground attack capabilities using the 37-mm cannon.
114 P-63Cs were delivered to the French Armee de l'Air at the end of the war. However, the French Kingcobras were delivered too late to see any service in World War 2 in Europe.
When the French were first faced with the Viet Minh insurgency in IndoChina, the US government initially would not allow the use of US-supplied Republic P-47 Thunderbolts in that conflict. The French had to use instead the Bell P-63C Kingcobras that had been supplied at the end of the war. Consequently, P-63s were taken out of storage in Africa, issued to operational squadrons, and shipped to Southeast Asia. The first Armee de l'Air P-63s arrived in IndoChina in April of 1949.​