FINALLY saw a P-38 fly

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Is that plane still flying? I've seen two P-38s with the "Marge" paint
job -- one in the EAA Museum in OSH, and one in the Bong Museum in
Superior, WI.


In your P-38 aviation video (Start-Up) the two props are spinning in the
same direction. Is this normal for P-38's? British?

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm
(scroll down to "P")

http://www.aviation-history.com/lockheed/p38.html
"The XP-38 had been powered by two liquid cooled, Allison V-1710 engines
turning 11 1/2 foot Curtiss Electric, inward turning, counter-rotating
propellers. With the YP-38s and all subsequent Lightings, the propellers
rotated outward negating torque when both engines were operating (A batch
ordered by Britain did not have counter-rotating propellers.)"


BTW, the missing T-Bird pilot is down for the season, unless he can complete
his retraining before then. Something medical(?) knocked him off the team a
while back. Ok, he's still on the team, but he's not on the tour.


Montblack