P-38 Lightning: The Skunk Works Fighter That Dominated WWII I have written multiple stories on the aircraft originating from Lockheed/Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works program, and passing ...

While the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was the heaviest single-engine fighter plane of the war, it was a versatile and highly capable craft used in various roles. Equipped with a Pratt and Whitney R ...

Following World War II, US junkyards and surplus stores were ... it was an extra fuel tank attached to the bottom of a P-38 fighter plane. So it was already proven to to be aerodynamic.

Lockheed's P-38 introduced the concept of the interceptor a fighter aircraft of great speed and high rate of climb. As WWII progressed the lighting was developed in to a wide range of roles ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

on a wide variety of its fighter aircraft, like the P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning. The Navy, though, used the "F" designation for its fighter aircraft. You can understand how ...

(As a side note, the late great Chuck Yeager was another beneficiary of the non-requirement of college degrees for WWII ... P-38, Lt. Dahl ended up with the 432nd Squadron of the 475th Fighter ...