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At Lockheed, the P-38 design was conducted through the formation of a secretive engineering team—an approach that would later lead to the creation of the now-famous “Skunk Works ...
Lockheed P-38. The Hughes XF-11, a Behemoth That Never Made It Out of Testing The aircraft was capable of reaching 42,000 feet with a 5,000-mile range and thought to be an ideal solution for ...
Lockheed and Convair finished 10,038 P-38 aircraft including 500 photo-reconnaissance models. They built more L models, 3,923, than any other version. To ease control and improve stability, ...
Because it spent its early days as an aviation fuel truck at Lockheed's plant in Burbank, California. And apparently, it was used to fuel the P-38 Lightning fighters that were built there during ...
In this feature article HOT ROD takes a look at Doug Hodak's bullet-nose 1950 Studebaker Champion Starlight coupe has been styled like a Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Only at www.hotrod.com, the ...
The P-38 model was finished two days before Christmas in 1945, and Miller adorned it with the words "Okinawa" and "1945" to commemorate the time and location of its creation.
Colored offset lithograph of a Lockheed "Lightening" P-38 in flight and firing on another aircraft. Smoke trails from the enemy aircraft. Another P-38 is seen flying near the bottom of the image.
Resembling the far more common Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Hughes XF-11 was roughly twice the size but never achieved full-scale production. [Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] At first glance, it might ...
Major Richard Bong (1920-1945), the United States' highest-scoring air ace, admires the picture of his girlfriend Marjorie Vattendahl, on the side of his Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft ...
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning Fighter crashed in September 1942 and is buried beneath 6.6 feet of sand. The ghostly remains of the plane, however, sometimes appear from the sands – the first ...
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