P38 Sunset Mission V2
by Peter Chilelli
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P38 Sunset Mission V2
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Peter Chilelli
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Digitally restored,enhanced and enlarged version of a public domain image.
With its two engines mounted on twin booms and the pilot's separate nacelle in between, the P-38 looked like no other plane. Lockheed's brilliant designer Kelly Johnson created the plane in response to a 1937 Army specification for an interceptor that could reach 20,000 feet in 6 minutes. With the engines of the era, this was quite a challenge, and the innovative P-38 design resulted. After lengthy production delays, the Lockheed appeared in force in the Southwest Pacific in mid-1943, and proved a devastating fighter.
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September 6th, 2014
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