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P-38 Lightning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A French scuba diver found the wreckage of a Lightning in the Mediterranean off the coast of Marseille in 2000, and it was confirmed in April 2004 as Saint-Exupery's. Two Lightnings that were forced to land in Lisbon, Portugal, while on a ferry flight from England to Algeria were interned and operated by the Portuguese, apparently with American blessing. The invasion took place in November 1942, and Lightning units, including a photo-reconnaissance unit under command of Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, the American president's son, then began acquiring familiarity with operating under "austere conditions" and matching their skills and aircraft against the enemy. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/P-38_Lightning   (6319 words)

P-38 Historic Aviation Shop Lightnings of the 364th Fighter Group cross the English coastal village of Bosham, returning from a low-level strike over France, summer of 1944. Lightning flew 100 miles per hour faster than any other plane in the Allied fleet, and here you'll see this ground-breaking aircraft from the drawing board to sorties over the Pacific. This Lightning of the 15th Air Force stands ready on a ramp in the Mediterranean theater during 1944. p38assn.org /giftshop-ha-shop-cont.htm   (957 words)

P-38 Lightning (D James) On 7 December 1941 - within minutes of the US declaration of war - a P-38E shot down a Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf 200C Condor maritime bomber near Iceland, and subsequently the Lightning was in the thick of fighting in North Africa and the Mediterranean, in North-Western Europe, and the Pacific. With the P-38E the United States adopted the name "Lightning" from the British variant, as well as the RAF's 20mm Hispano cannon. Although the Lightning was replaced by the the P-47 and P-51 as long-range escort in the US bomber campaign over Europe, in the Pacific it continued to be favoured as a front-line fighter, and it was deployed in large numbers up to the end of hostilities in August 1945. www.angelfire.com /fm/compass/P-38.htm   (592 words)

P-38 Lesson Plan - The P-38 Lightning The maneuverability of the Lightning was inferior to that of its nimble Japanese opponents, but the use of appropriate tactics -- for example, the avoidance of dogfighting at low altitudes and the use of fast diving attacks -- enabled the P-38 squadrons in New Guinea and the Solomons to achieve impressive results. The first Lightnings to be deployed overseas in the Pacific theatre were the small number of P-38Ds and P-38Es which were rushed to Fairbanks and Anchorage for service with the Alaska Defense Command. Two other Lightning squadrons (the 27th and the 50th) were held over in Iceland to assist the Curtiss P-40Cs of the 33rd Fighter Squadron in the flying of defensive patrols over the Atlantic. www.p38lessonplan.com /p-38H.html   (1240 words)

Lightning Cycle Dynamics, Inc. - Race-bred Recumbent Bicycles Lightning recumbents have travelled from Los Angeles to New York in 5 days, won the Abbot, Paul Mitchell, and STP Challenge Prizes, and have set over 20 world records. In addition to being fast, the modern integrated Lightning design delivers a bicycle that is also much more comfortable, safer and faster than ordinary "upright" designs. Team ALS Lightning was the first to cross the finish line in the famed Race Across America this year, setting several new records. www.lightningbikes.com   (493 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning The P-38G had a loaded weight some 200 pounds less than that of the P-38F, and was the most widely-built version of the early Lightnings. - The P-38F version of late 1942 was the first Lightning version that was considered fully combat ready. A proposal was made to modify Lightnings to tow "trains" of up to three of these troop-carrying gliders, but nothing ever came of this idea. www.kotfsc.com /aviation/lightning-2.htm   (2614 words)

P-38 National May the Contribution of P-38 "Lightning" and the people who Used it in our Victory during WW II never be forgotten by the freedom and peace loving future generations of the American people. The P-38 National Association was formed by a group of men and women who desired to perpetuate the memory of the P-38 Lockheed "Lightning" fighter aircraft and the people who designed, built, and maintained it, and the heroes who flew it to victory in the critical years of WW II. The P-38 "Lightning" had the long range that was needed to attack our enemies in the dangerous skies over Europe, Africa, the Far East, and the North and South Pacific Oceans. www.475thfghf.org /national.htm   (313 words)

P-38 can opener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The P-38 'Lightning' is also a WWII-era plane. The P-38 can opener is a small device found in a C-ration, the army field rations issued by the United States of America from World War II to the 1980s. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/P-38_can_opener   (370 words)

P-38: Der Gabelschwanz Teufel The P- 38 was the only US fighter capable of engaging the Bf109G and Fw190A on equal terms, providing escort for bombers well out of the range of the RAF Spitfires. The story of the Lightning began in the mid 'thirties, in a United States still very much isolationist, and in an acquisition climate dominated by fierce rivalry between the Army and Navy, who fought bitterly over what little money was spent on aircraft procurement. The first Lightnings to see combat operations were the photorecce F-4s of the 8th Photo Group, based in Australia, flying recce sorties over New Guinea and the Coral Sea. home.att.net /~ww2aviation/P-38.html   (3889 words)

www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org - U.S.A.A.F. Resource Center - Lockheed P-38 Lightning Lightnings were used for numerous roles including towing gliders, operating on skis, and equipped as fast ambulances (two stretcher cases, if anyone has a photo I would appreciate it). The Lightning is one of the most sought after warbirds on the market today with rebuilt examples bringing in $5,000,000(US) or more. Image 30 - Lightning with early model P-51 & P-47. www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /URG/p38.htm   (566 words)

Lockheed P-38 American war planners hoped the long-range capabilities of the P-38 Lightning could halt this deadly trend, but the very high and very cold environment peculiar to the European air war caused severe power plant and cockpit heating difficulties for the Lightning pilots. The Army Air Forces accepted this Lightning as a P-38J-l0-LO on November 6, 1943, and the service identified the airplane with the serial number 42-67762. While the Lightning was absent, U. Army Air Forces strategists had relearned a painful lesson: unescorted bombers cannot operate successfully in the face of determined opposition from enemy fighters. www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/lockheed_p38.htm   (2873 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Graphically illustrated by over 210 action photographs and many eyewitness accounts, P-38 Lightning at War tells the story of this unique and innovative aeroplane, revered for its adaptability and ability to limp home on one engine where other aircraft would have been destroyed. Background: One of the most recognizable aircraft of the war the P-38 Lightning was fast, long-ranged and heavily armed. It was a group of Lightning which caught Admiral Yamamoto on 18 April 1943 in a daring raid that culminated in the 'Betty' (Mitsubishi G4MI) being blown out of the sky, this depriving the Japanese fleet of its commander and the Japanese armed forces of heir most brilliant strategist. www.ww2guide.com /p38.shtml   (866 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning The P-38Ds were also the first to bear the name Lightning, which was the designation allocated to this aircraft when ordered for the RAF by the British Purchasing Commission of 1940. With the end of the war and the inevitable cancellations after VJ-Day most of the USAAF's Lightnings rapidly disappeared from the scene, but a few F-38J/-38Ls remained in service until 1949.       These Lightning Is, as designated by the RAF, had two 1,150 hp (858 kW) Allison V-1710-C15 (R) engines without turbochargers and, as indicated by the R suffix, both were of right-hand rotation. www.kotfsc.com /aviation/lightning.htm   (2872 words)

Project XP-38N: Walk Around This Lightning is dressed as "Lizzie V," a P-38L-5 flown by Capt. John Purdy of the 433rd FS/475th FG in the South Pacific. I much prefer the natural lightning in the main wing of the museum. I was particularly pleased that the museum curators have the dive recovery flaps deployed and the Fowler flaps extended a little (MANEUVER setting, possibly?) Both these features are worth highlighting, considering their effect on the performance of the airplane. www.kazoku.org /xp-38n/walkaround   (1450 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Rugged, fast and versatile, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a potent combat aircraft and a superb fighter bomber, also flying as a night fighter, reconnaissance aircraft and torpedo-bomber. Both men flew P-38 Lightnings in the Southwest Pacific and each received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his courage and accomplishments. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most famous American World War 2 planes - click here to find out about other American WW2 airplanes. www.world-war-2-planes.com /lockheed-p-38.html   (276 words)

P-38 E95-43116-2: Lockheed P-38 Lightning in flight The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the best-known Army Air Forces fighters that flew in World War II. The P-38 shown in this photo was one of the fighters built in the late 1930s and early 1940s that experienced compressibility effects. These accidents and near misses reinforced the popular belief in a "sound barrier." The need for data at speeds near that of sound and the inability of wind tunnels at the time to provide it would lead to the construction and flight of the X-1 and D-558 research aircraft. www.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/photo/P-38/HTML/E95-43116-2.html   (357 words)

P-38 LIGHTNING SUMMER 2003 Lightnings are almost always pictured as fighters, but Barrett Tillman explains its role as a bomber. In their own words, four different P-38 pilots tell what it was litht to be in combat over the Bismarck Sea, the Kula Gulf, Borneo and Amboina Island. Told as only Corky can tell it, we see a P-38 as seen through the eyes of the pilot. www.rccaraction.com /fj/store/viewissue.asp?issueid=P38L   (501 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Alerted by coastwatchers, the 39th FS Lightnings (a mix of p-38F's and P-38G's), led by Tom Lynch and Dick Bong, intercepted. On April 18, 1943, Lightnings of the 339th carried out the most famous fighter mission of the war, the assassination of Admiral Yamamoto. The Lightnings of the 1st, 14th, and 82nd Fighter Groups supported the Allied drive eastward across North Africa and then into Italy. www.acepilots.com /planes/p38_lightning.html   (2378 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning Aircraft Blueprints Aviation History Airplane Plans The P-38 Lightning was employed on all fronts and in several roles that had not been anticipated in the original design, including photographic reconnaissance missions as well as duty as a fighter-bomber and as a night fighter. Called by the Germans Der Gabelschwanz Teutel ("The Devil with the Cleft Tail"), the Lightning was a controversial plane, loved and hated at the same time by the men who flew it. And in April, 1943, a Lightning shot down the plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto, the man who had planned the Pearl Harbor attack. www.aviationshoppe.com /catalog/lockheed-p38-lightning-p-88.html   (263 words)

Flying the P-38 Lightning - pg. 3 - Flight Journal Magazine article This transitional performance is what made the Lightning great in a dogfight; it gave it far more versatility than a single-engine fighter. Another bugaboo with the Lightning was bailing out and hitting the horizontal stabilizer; actually, it wasn't that prevalent. Unfortunately, dive flaps did not come along until the late J Series—about the same time as the aileron boost—but far too late for most who had flown the P-38 in combat. www.rcstore.com /FJ/articles/p-38_lightning/p-38_lightning_3.asp   (1528 words)

P-38 Lightning Online 4.0 The Lightning's great speed, its sensational high altitude performance, and especially its ability to dive and climb much faster than the Zero presented insuperable problems for our fliers. The P-38 pilots, flying at great height, chose when and where they wanted to fight with disastrous results for our own men. p-38online.com   (204 words)

p-38 page html This, his 4th out of 5 P-38's is the aircraft that he scored most of his kills in. 38 victories and second to Richard Bong, McGuire favored the P-38 over other aircraft. With the permission of Marge Bong-Drucker, a copy of the original photo is adhered to this panel. www.fightingcolors.com /p-38_page_html.htm   (226 words)

Model Airplane News: P-38 LIGHTNING I really wanted to bring the Lightning to life, though, so I decided to use two Axi 2208/34 brushless outrunner motors and two Thunder Power 2-cell, 1300mAh Li-poly batteries (wired in parallel for a total capacity of 2600mAh). The center of the nacelles is spaced 6 3/8 inches from the center of the pod. The battery and receiver are accessed through the bay for the nose gear, and they are covered with a removable hatch. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3819/is_200502/ai_n9477923   (1216 words)

Lockheed P-38 P38 Lightning Posters - WWII Pictures Pilot Rex Barber flies his P-38 Lightning a little too close to a Japanese warship during a strafing run, and loses four feet of his port wing to the vessel's radio mast. Posters and pictures of the WWII P-38 fighter plane known as the Lightning (Lightening), or the "fork-tailed devil." It was manufactured by Lockheed Charles Lindberg secretly flew with the 475th Fighter Group from June to August, 1944. www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/posters/P-38-lightning-posters.html   (195 words)

The P-38 Lightning The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most recognizable aircraft of the Second World War because of it's twin boom tails and pod-like cockpit. Known as "der Gabelschwanz Teufel" ("the fork - tailed devil") by the Luftwaffe pilots who faced it, the Lightning flew in every major theater of operations and was the mount of the highest scoring US ace, Maj. Richard I. "Dick" Bong (5th. AF) in the Pacific (40 victories.) Other notable pilots who flew the craft were Col. Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh* (on secret missions,) Anthony "Snafuperman" LeVier (Lockheed test pilot) and Col. Charles McDonald (27 victories.) The P-38 was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other Allied aircraft during World War 2. www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/6940/lightning.html   (260 words)

Lockheed P-38 Lightning - USA The P-38 Lightning was the Army's fastest and most heavily armed fighter. Full Text and Specifications on The Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The concentration of firepower in the Lightning's nose was so effective that a one-second burst could destroy an enemy plane. www.aviation-history.com /lockheed/p38.htm   (68 words)

P-38 Lightning Books and World War 2 Book Store. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is known today as a fighter airplane, but in fact it was designed to intercept and destroy enemy bombers. The P-38 lightning was built by Lockheed during World War 2. A richly detailed history of the 475th Fighter Group and their P-38 Lightnings in battle. www.yellowairplane.com /Books_Fighter_Aircraft/P-38_Books.html   (1838 words)

Warbird Alley: Lockheed P-38 Lightning The Lightning gained fame in the hands of Army Major Richard I. Bong, whose 40 aerial victories were scored in the P-38, making him the highest-scoring American ace of the war. The final variants of the Lightning design, the F-4 and F-5, were photo-reconnaissance models used in Europe and the Far East. The most-built version was the P-38L, of which 3923 were built. www.warbirdalley.com /p38.htm   (435 words)

Richard I. Bong WWII Heritage Center :: Superior, Wisconsin Preserving and providing appropriate shelter for the P-38 Lightning on display outside the Bong Memorial Room in Poplar, Wisconsin became the inspiration for the Richard I. Bong WWII Heritage Center. Of the thousands of P-38 Lightning fighter planes manufactured, less than 30 are still in existence. Between 1994 and 1997 volunteers at the Minnesota Air National Guard in Duluth carefully removed the vintage plane from the pylons to start the lengthy restoration project. www.bongheritagecenter.org /p38?trigger=about_us   (864 words)

P-38 Lightning PTO Aces of World War Two WWII The Lightnings of the 347th Fighter Group were now free to accompany the heavy bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force deep into enemy territory. On December 23, the Lightnings of the 18th Fighter Group were again given the job of escorting a formation of B-24's striking Rabaul. With its twin engines, long range and heavy firepower, the Lightning was ideally suited to the long distances of the Pacific, and with appropriate tactics, the Zero couldn't touch it. www.acepilots.com /usaaf_pto_aces.html   (6194 words)

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