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Lockheed P-38 Lightning in combat, how range, drop tanks, and complexity shaped its European war
This chapter follows the P-38 Lightning into frontline service, from secret drop tank breakthroughs and transatlantic ferry flights to hard lessons learned over Europe. It is a story of range, ...
Key market opportunities include growing demand for advanced survivability suites, integration of real-time multi-sensor ...
Today, the F‑35 serves as a central component of allied airpower. Its fleet has expanded worldwide, supported by continual software and weapons upgrades. From prototype to operational force, the F‑35 ...
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning part 1, the radical interceptor idea that changed American fighter design
From Ben Kelsey’s regulatory end run to Kelly Johnson’s twin boom interceptor, the P 38 Lightning began as a daring solution to high altitude combat, surviving prototype failures, political risk, and ...
At 0600 hrs on 28 May 1943 the P-38G 42-13381 of 330th FS, 329th FG, USAAF crashed in the sea one mile off Camp Callan, California, and sank immediately. The Naval Air Station San Diego dispatched to ...
The Flying Bulls have announced that they will display two aircraft restorations— a Douglas DC-6B and a Lockheed P-38 Lightning—at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026. The Flying Bulls aircraft will be parked ...
Austria’s The Flying Bulls announced on Wednesday that two restored aircraft from its collection will appear at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2026 on July 20-26 at the Wittman Regional Airport (OSH). The ...
The Lockheed P-322 Lightning was a designation given to P-38s taken over from a British order cancelled in 1942.This order had been inherited from the French, and had been for a simplified version of ...
On January 27, 1939, the first flight of a long-range fighter jet took place, which was revolutionary in its design. The fighter that killed the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor in a ...
Many of the most successful fighter pilots gained fame not only for their aerial tactics, but for their ability to pass their knowledge on to others. Ironically, some of those who handed down their ...
A super-secret Lockheed Martin Skunk Works project is no longer a secret after the company revealed its Vectis Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) – an autonomous stealth fighter drone developed ...
Less than five miles north of Brightwood - deep in the protected Bull Run watershed - lies the place where a young World War II pilot lost his life. For nearly two decades, the forest kept the secret ...
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