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    The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an American single-seat, twin piston-engined fighter aircraft that was used during World War II. Developed for the United...
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    Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning was an American long-range fighter developed during World War II. Although derived from the successful P-38 Lightning,...
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    Washington. P-38L 44-26761 – in storage at Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida. List of Lockheed P-38 Lightning operators Lockheed XP-49 Lockheed XP-58...
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    The Lockheed XP-49 (company Model 522) was an advancement on the P-38 Lightning for a fighter in response to U.S. Army Air Corps proposal 39-775. Intended...
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  • reconnaissance. Lockheed P-38 Lightning (unofficial) Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Lockheed XF-90 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Lockheed U-2 Lockheed X-26 Frigate...
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    The following are units which operated the Lockheed P-38 Lightning: Royal Australian Air Force The RAAF received five F-4s from August 31, 1942. These...
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  • The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer. Lockheed was founded in 1926 and merged in 1995 with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin...
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    down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. He died in California while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter shortly before the war...
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    gave excellent performance at high altitude in the twin-engined Lockheed P-38 Lightning, and turbo-superchargers were fitted to experimental single-engined...
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    The XB-38 was destroyed and the project was canceled, in part because the V-1710 engines were in high demand for Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk...
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    The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, supersonic stealth strike fighters. A multirole combat aircraft...
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    with excellent long-range capabilities, until the arrival of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Lancer was the only American fighter capable of catching a...
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    term is not known with certainty. The P-38 opener coincidentally shares a designation with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane, which could allude to...
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    losses during the Battle of Britain. An exception was the American Lockheed P-38 Lightning, which proved an effective heavy fighter; even against smaller...
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    variations of the 20 mm guns used on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft were produced by International Harvester. The P-38's nose-mounted M2 featured a built-in...
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  • twin engine design was loosely based on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning planform. The TD-3 Beta Lightning is a twin boom, twin engine, tricycle gear monoplane...
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  • or droop snoot has been variously applied to the following: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning (J variant) The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber The variable-angled...
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    and manuals for famous airplanes such as the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the North American B-25 Mitchell, the Boeing B-17 Flying...
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    from these proposals were the single-engine Bell P-39 Airacobra and the twin-engine Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Both aircraft were successful during World War...
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  • Mary Golda Ross (category Lockheed people)
    also the first female engineer in the history of the Lockheed Corporation. She worked at Lockheed from 1942 until her retirement in 1973, where she was...
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    Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath...
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    turbocharged airplanes included the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and experimental variants of the Focke-Wulf...
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    1991, p. 19. Bodie 1991, pp. 16–17. Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Retrieved: 21 January 2007. Bodie 1991, p. 14. Donald 1997, p. 106. McDowell 1980, p. 10....
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  • Italian prototype fighter of 1939 Lockheed F-4 Lightning, a reconnaissance variant of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning World War 2 fighter Fleetwings Sea...
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  • aerial firefighting. Pete Sandidge is the reckless pilot of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning flying out of England during World War II. He is in love with Air...
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  • of the Cold War era Lockheed P-38 Lightning, an American fighter aircraft of World War II Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, a US/UK fighter aircraft...
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    The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation starting in 1943. The Constellation series...
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    but it was gradually replaced by the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and the North American P-51 Mustang. The bulk of the fighter...
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    set Lockheed back a year in their quest to solve the problem of compressibility encountered in high speed dives made by the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The...
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  • P38 (redirect from P-38 (disambiguation))
    HMS P38 (1917), a P-class sloop of the Royal Navy HMS P38 (1941), a submarine of the Royal Navy Lockheed P-38 Lightning, an American fighter aircraft P-38 can opener...
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