Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Blueskies" wrote in
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LeVier did a lot of the high mach number dive tests in the 38, and
there definitely was a compressibility problem, mach tuck; the
whole
works. I know they added speed brakes but not sure at exactly what
stage. The engine rotation switch was early on in the program
according to Ethell; I believe in the YP38 stage before the first
production run. If I'm not mistaken, the high mach dives came after
the switch but I'm not at all certain of that.

--
Dudley Henriques
All the -38s sold to England had same rotation direction engines on
both sides all the way through. Just another odd thing...


Are you sure about that?


Bertie
I heard the same thing. The Brits raised hell about what they
considered
a high degree of possibility for unnecessary maintainence due to the
handed engines. On the practical side, the Brits had ordered a ton of
P40's which used the V1710 Allison with a right handed prop. The word
we
got was that the brits wanted the Allison's on the 38's to be
interchangeable with the P40 to cut down on cost.



http://www.vectorsite.net/avp38.html

And here'some more stuff saying more or less the same thing.

BTW, do you remember the guy with the yellow 38 who used to do a low
level deadstick aerobatic routine? Saw him at Rockford once but can't
remember his name.


Bertie

The only P38 guys I knew who did the show circuit during the time I was
in it were Lefty Gardner, Chuck Lyford, Jeff Ethell, Bill Ross, and Hoof
Proudfoot. Can't recall anyone flying a yellow bird.

--
Dudley Henriques