This was the first thing I thought of when I saw 'hanging on the props"
I know it's a warbird pilot, but he's referencing his father's combat experience. I'll find it from a combat 38 driver too, but this is the one I thought of first.
Qouting from the Jeff Ethell article in Flight Magazine, August 1997
"At 100 mph I could hang the P38 on it's props, feet on the floor and gently move the rudder slide side to side."
Also from the same article, talking about his father Erv Ethell, who flew combat in 38Fs in the MTO with the 14th FG and who was also a P38 instructor afterwards.
"Without much thought. I was entering his (Erv Ethell's) preferred combat maneuver; power up, I pictured a 109 on my tail and began and increasingly steep right handed climbing turn. In turning and twisting with 109s and 190s, Dad never got a bullet hole in his P38F "Tangerine". As the speed dropped below 150mph,I flipped the flap handle to the maneuver stop (which can be used up to 250mph) amd tightened the turn. At this point, the 109 pilot, at full power with the right rudder all the way down, would have snap rolled into a vicious stall if he had chosen to follow. I pulled the power back on the inside (right engine), pushed the power up on the outside (left) engine, shoved right rudder pedal, and the Lightning smoothly swapped ends. Not only did it turn on a dime, but it rotated around it's central axis as if spinning on a pole running through the top of the canopy and out the bottom of the cockpit. The maneuver was absolutely comfortable with no heavy G loading. I threw the flap lever back to full up, evened the throttles and heading down going through 300mph in less time then it tals to tell it. The 109 would have been a sitting duck."
