P-38J the fastest lightning of them all

[SpyHawk]

Heck yeah. Olive drab P-38F.

And also an olive drab P-51B while they're at it.

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by Vermillion:
Whats wrong with the horizontal stabilizer?

A single hit of any type and it rips off  

Dunno if its the size (combine the width of the stablizer with the elevator it is kinda big)

lack of a spar, lack of the outer tips that extend past the vertical stablizer er what but it sure seems weak.

That or it just gets hit to much  
I swear those ack gunners aim for it when I jabo.

- Jig

[Citabria]

so all you guys want the p-38j too right?

[juzz]

Why not an earlier G instead, for scenarios?

[Nath-BDP]

Aye.

 

 

 

And I also want this...

 

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[funked]

Nath you're going to hate me, but that's actually a P-38L.  Check out the dive flaps outboard of the engines.  For some reason the USAF Museum painted the plane as a P-38J-10-LO with a serial number of 42-67855.  But it's an L.  Museums are strange that way...


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[Nath-BDP]

hehe -- I hate the lighting in the USAF museum as well.   Hard to get nice pics.

My 2nd time there, don't realy pay much attention to detail on the American planes, mostly just the German ones.  

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[funked]

Yeah it is hard to take pictures there.  Awesome museum though!  Did you get a chance to see the Ju 88?  The Me 109G-10 is arguably the best-restored plane in the museum.  You could eat your dinner off the engine surfaces.

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[Nath-BDP]

I saw the Ju 88 my first time, got good pics there since the lighting in the presidential area is much better.