Friday, April 29, 2005
Friday Night Airplane blogging
The P-38 Lightning was known as The Whispering Death in the Pacific Theater because of the muffled exhaust noise from the turbosupercharged Allison engines. This large twin boom design was surprisingly maneuverable and fast. The speed and stability of the counter-rotating engines made it an ideal platform for photo-recon or guns. Not bad for a pre-war design whose hand built prototype crashed at the end of a cross country publicity stunt.
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