less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Instantly recognizable for its twin-boom design and central nacelle, the P-38 cut one of the war ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning ... Japanese or German aircraft would not have wanted to spend 15 seconds this close to a P-38. Manufacturing of bitumen-lined water bottles The ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was indeed the very first aircraft produced by Skunk Works ... morale of the IJN never truly recovered. As military aviation historian Don Hollway puts it, "In all ...

At the 2002 Nellis Air Show near Las Vegas, a Sabre heads up an A team in a USAF Heritage Flight: (from left) P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt, F-15 Eagle, P-38 Lightning, and TF-51. Erik ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...