Thanks for sharing.

Tony LeVier could do it.

Ppl Mo

Tony: *Breaks out a cigarette and starts smoking* Milo: Good show, Tony.

The factory was practically next door to the Hollywood movie studios. Getting the best film would have been easier for them than with other companies.

Well, having Disney studios practically just down the street made it really easy for Lockheed to get some animation work on their training films.

Bad buffeting, but with dive flaps, and careful attention, you could prevent that. ;-)

Bullshit !!! The P 38 hsd a pathetic Mach limit of 0.68!!!

The airspeed gauge tops out at 700 (gotta hand it to those boys-- they were optimists!) and pilots reported their gauges pegged in these dives-- this was from the shockwaves in the pitot giving false readings.

@@garytarr8216 Which means nothing, it absolutely *can* pull out of a compressibility dive. And did so regularly.

manifestgtr I could never figure out why they never stretched the center pylon a couple of feet to help with that problem. 2-3’ feet would of made a big difference,

@@lestermiller2717 That would entail burdening Lockheeds already stretched thin production lines, and would need redesigning for center of balance, new center fusalage parts, new canopy design, enough room to install another cockpit, which must mirror the front one, so it would be another five to six feet, rather then two or three

I know right? Besides all the information about the P-38, seeing 1943 in color is also extremely interesting and a big reason for watching this film.

Orlando 1701 only built one with merlins

One with packards.

@@chipaultman3563 Okay?

Actually, no P-38 Lightning ever flew with Merlin engines, Packard or Rolls Royce. The Merlin literally will not fit in the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning. A design study was conducted. The Merlin would have reduced performance in every category.

@@chipaultman3563 Never.

Warner Bros and Disney are literally on the other side of town from these guys.

@HiWetcam : I wish it had a better oil pump system to permit extended inverted flight, even thought the WD deemed it unnecessary to dog-fighting. She's still my favorite ship!

@HiWetcam Yes left engine is the one powering the generator, lose the left and flight time is limited to how long the battery holds charge.

@HiWetcam My bad, so yes the craft could still fly but possibly with no radios or instruments?

@@rayg9069 I thought both engine and booms were identical other than reversed rotation and there being a battery in the left (and a tiny storage area in the right). Of course that may have only been the radar equipped variants, those early tube radars ate power.

It's a little complicated. To begin with, every P-38 came with a generator on the left. A lot of early birds only had the one generator when they came off the assembly line because they didn't know if they would have enough to go around. But generators _did_ come around, and soon enough you might just get a P-38 off the assembly line with two generators installed. And just because your P-38 might have had only one generator when it was built doesn't mean it had to stay that way, and practically every P-38 would get a second generator installed by Army mechanics on the field... ... but, we're talking about Army here, and you can't count on the field-installed generator to stay under warranty, in a manner of speaking. So, the rule was you could practice single-engine flight with your right engine/generator _if your generator was installed at the factory,_ where it was signed off and certified. If your mechanic added a generator to your right engine, rule was you still practiced with flying on the left engine only.

Galland was a notorious liar. Read Steinhoff, who commanded the post war Luftwaffe.

If you're leaving the airplane, the buffet is the least of your concerns.

The propellors will go to fine pitch, and the engines will over speed.

The speed of the engine is being held back purely by the wind resistance of the propellor blades. If the propellor is broken, the engine will overspeed.

@@BogeyTheBear Yeah that's when instinct tells you to hit the kill switch or chop the throttle...

Yeh what a coup shooting down an unarmed transport plane!!!

@@garytarr8216 You know, Gary, are people too stupid these days to do little a research before they say such moronic things? The Betty was armed to the teeth and Yamamoto had 6 fighter escorts. Here is the only one who survived the ambush, Kenji Yanagiya, a top fighter ace of the Imperial Navy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Yanagiya

Hollywood. Literally the next town over from Burbank where these planes were built.

@@BogeyTheBear actually I think Disney in burbank...but I definitely could be misremembering

Well, they were only in their twenties. Heck, I'm in my twenties and act like that. Haha

Mosquito couldn't hang in combat with single engine fighters in aerial combat. P-38 could and did. Not taking anything away from the Mosquito, great aircraft...it just wasn't the twin engine fighter it was originally designed as.

The P-38J was introduced in August of 1943. The P-38L was introduced in June of 1944. Several pilots made ace before either were introduced. So, no, it was hardly "useless".

Tell that to Admiral Yamamoto, who was killed by a flight of P-38Gs.