Hello Fred, my grandfather, Walter Schaefer was a fluid hydraulic engineer at Lockheed. He moved to California in 1940 and immediately went to work on the P-38, bringing his family with him to Studio City from Saginaw, Michigan and our family remained in California. Sounds like our ancestors might have had a cup of coffee at the same table during the war years. He spent the rest of his career with Lockheed (his favorite was the Constellation) and ended his career on the F-104.
She's a beauty eh! I'm not sure if it's my "Favorite" from WW2 or several others allied and Axis, there were s) many really beautiful aircraft in those days! They had a simplicity that will never be seen again. If I were a pilot I would love to get my hands on the nightfighter and rebuild it 😂😂
as a kid, I made a simple balsa wing p-38 glider - 36" span. Has always been my most favorite aircraft. As an adult, learning the USA top aces of aces were P-38 drivers. Speaks truth. When the remains of a P-38 from the lost squadron, I touched them at Oshkosh... Years later, as Glacier Girl, I touched the same... WOW. Yes, I'm a very tactile pilot. Why have so few videos been made about our best fighter ?
My former father-in-law flew the P-38. He said if they would have allowed him to keep flying it, with newer aircraft on line, he would still be in the service. He was a hot shot. Flying over his grandmother’s farm in upstate NY at 100’, all of a sudden there was the silo directly ahead. He pulled the yoke to his chest, and lived to tell me the story.
I love the p-38 lightning. It picks up where the mosquito leaves off. The only issue was compressibility and why didn't they fix it. It was such a simple fix! Removing the rear lateral attachment acting as to tie the tails together. If they had to remove that and made each tail independent, it would have solved that. I hate to be a Monday quarterback. It truly needed all the dive speed that it could get to. But nevertheless, in the flight Sims it is the best and will destroy and rip the wings off of bombers. Taking Top Gun maneuvers which I know was not available during world war II. Oh it has a big advantage over single engines props or a super prop. Loved it! I would like to add that the p38 lightning was the precursor to the A10. Absolutely! Being an old US Navy rotorhead 💯 I love the p-38 and the a-10. Remembering back in world war II. They were all in the European theater part of the Army Air Force. Or otherwise known before the thee usaac United States Army Air corps. That's what it was called before they integrated into the Army Air Force. Then the Pacific theater with the US Navy and the USMC, the army of the Navy. Hoorah semper Fi 👊😎
It was Mach tuck. Cutting away the tail stabilizer isn't going to solve that. They remedied the situation with dive flaps on the outboard wings, out of line with the tail, so tell me how did the horizontal tail factor into the problem?
Upon hearing about the plan for attack on the naval base at Pearl harbor, Admiral Yamamoto remarked," Is it wise to wake a sleeping giant?",, His remark was realized
this, the mustang, and the mosquito were to me the best designs of ww2. to be fair, though, the soviets created some unique single-purpose aircraft that were excellent. The catalina is another top design.
The metric world knows not that caliber is 1/100th of an inch. Or a grain is 1/7000th of a pound. Or that American-Imperial measurements is the superior aeronautical engineering system. Altitude is measured in feet. And the world absolute altitude record is measured in feet. The evidence of these facts are enshrined in a photo of an American Footprint on the Moon.
One of the "Sexiest Three" imho: the SR-71 Blackbird, the P-38 Lightning, and the ME-262. (sorry for that last, but it _is_ freaking beautiful! Sort've a single-boom jet propulsed version of the '38)
Crashed on the NY end of the speed run because the airport wasn't notified it was coming. The tower put it in a hold pattern and the P-38 ran out of fuel.. belly landing on a golf course. 23 mins faster than prev. speed record actually (- refueling)
You are correct. Read 2/11/39 Mitchel Field crash report. Held back for slow traffic in pattern, (4:55pm) swung wide, then couldn't accelerate. Icing stalled port engine, clipped tree and crashed on golf course. Pics in report and Time Magazine 2/20/1939
@ To further elaborate, the P-38 was not equipped with a carburetor heat control because the turbocharger supplied that heat through compression. If a P-38 pilot wanted to keep the carbs clear of ice he had to throttle up far enough to engage the turbo (2/3rds throttle or above).
One of the best fighters if WW2, for sure. However, according to many fighter pilots and bomber pilots, the F4u Corsair was the best fighter of that period. The F4u even fought in Korea in the fifties. Also, it was the longest produced WW2 fighter ever. I also love the P-47.
@@alansiebert7029Not so the case. The War Department ran the US Army, the Army Reserve, and the National Guard. The Navy Department ran the US Navy and Marine Corps. In 1947 they were consolidated into the Defense Department, adding the US Air Force as new, separate branch.
Lockheed always had a reputation for speed. The Electra was faster than its Douglas and Boeing competitors (who beat Lockheed through passenger capacity and thus economy). The Vega-types were record-setters for aviation pioneers due to their plywood fuselages making them exceptionally strong for their light weight. Back in the day, Lockheed was the aviation equivalent of Ferrari while Douglas and Boeing were Ford and General Motors: Lockheed did small-scale high performance at a comparatively high price-- they made a name for themselves, but not a huge lot of customers like the other companies.
It was cool but had a number of flaws they say, foremost it was vulnerable in a dogfight. The cockpit was freezing cold, and it could go out of control in a dive.
The P-38 was vulnerable when bounced. It was not disadvantaged in a dogfight, if the Pilot was able to dictate when and where it happened. (E.g. when doing the bouncing, or by joining a fight, or while defending bombers). The primary issue it had was human factors related. It was complex to operate all of the various engine, mixture, propeller, and turbocharger controls. So if ever bounced, the pilot could do little to avoid the attack because the number of steps required to prep for combat was excessive. Kelly Johnson learned, and all subsequent designs were pilot-focused.
At 44:12. My, my how far we've declined. Now, it takes multiple committees at every level of government, government agencies, contractor, subcontractor, middlemen, and others to accomplish something. And they all skim our tax dollars in the process, which certainly does not involve "brevity" and "clarity".
I've heard some fighter pilots say they'd take the P47 Thunderbolt with 8 50s over the Mustang,with the Radial engine they could take one hell of a beating & get you back But some said the P51 was just a BEAUTIFUL Airplane to fly,only 6 50s But YES with the online engine were more suseptible to to serious damage but the big advantage was altitude & fuel economy. Cover the Big Bombers to their targets & if you didn't get shot they could still do a lot of damage to factories,ammo dumps,grounded planes,trains on return. Dad said the Gruman F8Fs Bearcats were just put on 1 or 2 carriers but the War ended so they never saw action. They were called a Saddle on an engine,they were made to get off the carrier Fast & shoot Kamakazees.
That was a very enjoyable one hour twenty minutes. What an Ace Richard Bong was and Kelly Johnson was as naturally gifted in his capacity of invention, determination man's clarity in an era of pure human brain matter. No wonder America has sored 5o the heights it has and we need her now vis-a-vis China, but not its complicity with what Israel is doing to Palestine civilians.
Imagine designing high performance aircraft with ZERO computers, and ZERO wind tunnels. The only math tool available was the slide rule and lots of intuitive feel. Before actual flight testing they often built scale models and used high speed fans to simulate flight. LoL.
"One of America's Most Unique WWII Warplanes" It is either unique or it isn't. Or, perhaps you go to the ATM machine at 9AM in the morning and enter your car's VIN number as your password?
You are technically right, as the Bell XP-59 was the first aircraft to fly on U.S. soil powered by a turbojet, given to General Electric by the Brits in great secrecy in 1941 (it flew in 1942). It was Whittle’s engine, the first turbojet in history. This said, the first operational turbojet aircraft was the F-80 Shooting Star, also powered by Whittle’s British engine. It also became Pratt & Whitney’s first turbojet under a license agreement. The F-80 first operated in limited capacity in Italy during WWII (we posted a photo about that.) In short the XP-59 was a mere prototype, unfit for operational purpose, and the Shooting Star was the first U.S. operational jet fighter, also initially operating in the Korean War theater, where it had to face the formidable MiG-15, ironically also powered by Whittle’s engine, which was reverse engineered by the Soviets and illegally mass produced after Rolls Royce gave the Russians a few units. The F-80 proved to be largely inferior to the MiG (swept wings), forcing the U.S. to deploy the F-86, which proved to be a better match.
@ …there was a lot of learning going on. America was playing catch up to the British. Needed a fighter ASAP. Kelly Johnson gave did it in six months. Whereas North American had the benefit of time
The P38 could not match either the FW190 or BF109 at higher altitudes due to compressibility issues. It’s worth watching Eric ‘Winkle’ Browns assessment on the subject. Only the P51 could outmatch Luftwaffe fighters in higher altitude dogfights.
DP 51 mustang was faster and much more maneuverable and the P 38 I with the famous Merlin engine what is undoubtedly the most famous fighter aircraft in the world
8:32 So the U.S. didn’t want to give the Brits access to the supercharger technology but the Brits gave us the Jet engine amongst other things…sounds about right.
The brits gave Stalin the blueprints for the bomb. Then continued to funnel vast quantities of information to the USSR, leading to them developing ICBMS. The Brits of the 1940s and '50s were not to be trusted.
@@Triple_J.1. There were several soviet spies with links to the Manhattan project. Two of them were indeed British, the most important being Fuchs. Another was not himself British, but had links to the British contingent. Other spies were American, including Greenglass, Hall and of course the Rosenbergs, who went to the electric chair. These people were mostly dedicated communists, and bear in mind that the Soviet Union was on the Allied side in the war.
American metallurgy was superior to any European nation, be it the British or Germans. Those fellows across the pond may have invented the jet engine, but it was American-built jet engines that could last more than a hundred hours before a rebuild. That knowledge came from American experience with turbos.
Those early designs and the men who flew then tend to get less love. Not because they were inferior, but because they were there in the dark days of the early war before victory was certain. And enemy superiority was vastly inflated by the ignorant media. The later aircraft such as the P-51 and Corsair get the credit for winning the war. But it was the P-40, F4F, Hurricane and Spitfire that met the Axis of Evil on the enemies terms, and stopped them.
I think he's referring to the statement about the p-38 being the only american model to be in production all the way through the war. I'm not positive, but i think he's right - i'm pretty sure both the P40 and F4F were as well. Fancified late war variants were being made all the way through IIRC, just in fewer numbers than they had been, as most capacity had converted to other production lines.
That plane could NOT be "MOST unique"! Unique means "one and only"! So it was either UNIQUE, or NOT UNIQUE! The author and editors need to go back to school!
Well hearing that it was made until the end of ww2 Why didn't they consider adding the packard merlin engines to this aircraft. I believe this aircraft would have been even better with those two engines!!! It would have been faster, more fuel efficient, all around a better aircraft. Its always politics that spell mediocrity in military equipment!!! Same as the P 39 Airacobra...
dolts! not 30mm or 50mm! .30cal and .50cal. need someone with a basic knowledge of the subject matter to review b4 you post. sheeesh! and 'may we have a moment for the president of the united states, mr obama'??!! wtf!!??
The British were stupid as they told them to eliminate the supercharges basically castrating them and then complained about the performance. Nor were they very good tacticians - Gallipoli, Dunkirk, North Africa, and D-Day. Montgomery was a prime example of British excellence - as in not.
Sighs, " unique is an absolute term like dead or pregnant; it is semantic gibberish to speak of" most unique"; X is unique dead or pregnant or it is not, thus it cannot be more less or 'most' unique
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Kelly Johnson. One of my all time heroes
Can you imagine if he was still alive and designing?
I mean, the SR71 Blackbird was far above anything else!
My dad was a Lockheed engineer. He worked on the P-38's design team while he and my mom lived in CA.
Hello Fred, my grandfather, Walter Schaefer was a fluid hydraulic engineer at Lockheed. He moved to California in 1940 and immediately went to work on the P-38, bringing his family with him to Studio City from Saginaw, Michigan and our family remained in California. Sounds like our ancestors might have had a cup of coffee at the same table during the war years. He spent the rest of his career with Lockheed (his favorite was the Constellation) and ended his career on the F-104.
One of the greatest planes of WW2
Von wegen, gegen ein einmotorigen Jagdflugzeug hatte es keine Chance....
@@GmmaikaIt shot down over 1800 Japenese aircraft in Pacific and CBI, mostly single engine aircraft, top 2 aces of USAAF, flew P-38.
My favorite WWII aircraft.
Me too, love the nightfighter variant pictured in the thumbnail.
Its awesome. P51 than P38. Both unreal and masterpieces.
Ditto 😊
Me too.
She's a beauty eh! I'm not sure if it's my "Favorite" from WW2 or several others allied and Axis, there were s) many really beautiful aircraft in those days! They had a simplicity that will never be seen again. If I were a pilot I would love to get my hands on the nightfighter and rebuild it 😂😂
Richard Bong ace of aces in that rig
The Bong recreation area was very popular when I was in high school
@allwinds3786 touche
as a kid, I made a simple balsa wing p-38 glider - 36" span. Has always been my most favorite aircraft. As an adult, learning the USA top aces of aces were P-38 drivers. Speaks truth. When the remains of a P-38 from the lost squadron, I touched them at Oshkosh... Years later, as Glacier Girl, I touched the same... WOW. Yes, I'm a very tactile pilot. Why have so few videos been made about our best fighter ?
It wasnt used enough in the war in my opinion..
Probably the most underrated fighter of the war
3:30 These men were on a different level, he designed that plane by hand with basic math tools.
Pwople cared about what they did and how they were viewed...
Kelly was a visionary way ahead of his time
I had one on my dressed. I had given it to my dad many years ago, becaust he had flown them. Now I have it.
MY ALL TIME Favorite P38 Kelly Johnson awesome engineer!
My former father-in-law flew the P-38. He said if they would have allowed him to keep flying it, with newer aircraft on line, he would still be in the service. He was a hot shot. Flying over his grandmother’s farm in upstate NY at 100’, all of a sudden there was the silo directly ahead. He pulled the yoke to his chest, and lived to tell me the story.
This was a very well made video and very impressive Next time talk about the GE engines and/or super chargers. Thanks
24:16 Samuel Cabot of Cabot stains and varnishes?
I love the p-38 lightning. It picks up where the mosquito leaves off. The only issue was compressibility and why didn't they fix it. It was such a simple fix! Removing the rear lateral attachment acting as to tie the tails together. If they had to remove that and made each tail independent, it would have solved that. I hate to be a Monday quarterback. It truly needed all the dive speed that it could get to. But nevertheless, in the flight Sims it is the best and will destroy and rip the wings off of bombers. Taking Top Gun maneuvers which I know was not available during world war II. Oh it has a big advantage over single engines props or a super prop. Loved it!
I would like to add that the p38 lightning was the precursor to the A10. Absolutely! Being an old US Navy rotorhead 💯 I love the p-38 and the a-10. Remembering back in world war II. They were all in the European theater part of the Army Air Force. Or otherwise known before the thee usaac United States Army Air corps. That's what it was called before they integrated into the Army Air Force. Then the Pacific theater with the US Navy and the USMC, the army of the Navy. Hoorah semper Fi 👊😎
It was Mach tuck. Cutting away the tail stabilizer isn't going to solve that.
They remedied the situation with dive flaps on the outboard wings, out of line with the tail, so tell me how did the horizontal tail factor into the problem?
Those days of the war ,brought out the true spirit of America .. the men went to war ,and the women worked in the factories , ..
Ahead of its time. Such an incredible, beautiful and unusual looking airplane for its time.
Over 400mph is really fast back then especially considering passenger jet aircraft of the modern day fly avg of 500 mph
MY dad was a crew chief on these in North Africa during WWII. That gave me the bug and I wnet on to work on combat aircraft in the USAF.
Bless him
Upon hearing about the plan for attack on the naval base at Pearl harbor, Admiral Yamamoto remarked," Is it wise to wake a sleeping giant?",, His remark was realized
Not quite accurate. Yamamoto said, "we HAVE awakened a sleeping giant". Full stop!!
The initial requirements in the specification already called for a twin engine, wasn't kellys idea
this, the mustang, and the mosquito were to me the best designs of ww2. to be fair, though, the soviets created some unique single-purpose aircraft that were excellent.
The catalina is another top design.
Sure looks a lot like the XF 11 built by Howard Hughes. The Japanese used his designs for the Zero.
Siempre me gustó mucho ese avión
The machine guns on the lightning prototype were 30 and 50 caliber, not millimeter. Just sayin.
The metric world knows not that caliber is 1/100th of an inch.
Or a grain is 1/7000th of a pound.
Or that American-Imperial measurements is the superior aeronautical engineering system.
Altitude is measured in feet. And the world absolute altitude record is measured in feet.
The evidence of these facts are enshrined in a photo of an American Footprint on the Moon.
And the cannon was 20mm, not 37mm.
One of the "Sexiest Three" imho: the SR-71 Blackbird, the P-38 Lightning, and the ME-262. (sorry for that last, but it _is_ freaking beautiful! Sort've a single-boom jet propulsed version of the '38)
Always loved this plane in flight sims
The British should have put the Merlin engine into the lightnings and ordered them just frame.
But its main weakness was the connection between the tail and the twin boombs. Latter they had to reiforce it.
Crashed on the NY end of the speed run because the airport wasn't notified it was coming. The tower put it in a hold pattern and the P-38 ran out of fuel.. belly landing on a golf course. 23 mins faster than prev. speed record actually (- refueling)
Heard it was carb icing since Kelsey had to loiter in the pattern.
You are correct. Read 2/11/39 Mitchel Field crash report. Held back for slow traffic in pattern, (4:55pm) swung wide, then couldn't accelerate. Icing stalled port engine, clipped tree and crashed on golf course. Pics in report and Time Magazine 2/20/1939
@ To further elaborate, the P-38 was not equipped with a carburetor heat control because the turbocharger supplied that heat through compression. If a P-38 pilot wanted to keep the carbs clear of ice he had to throttle up far enough to engage the turbo (2/3rds throttle or above).
Skunk works first aircraft !!!
19:20 that looks intense
One of the best fighters if WW2, for sure. However, according to many fighter pilots and bomber pilots, the F4u Corsair was the best fighter of that period. The F4u even fought in Korea in the fifties. Also, it was the longest produced WW2 fighter ever. I also love the P-47.
The "Defense Department", mentioned several times , only came into existence in 1947.
Wasn't it department of war prior, same thing different name
@@alansiebert7029Not so the case.
The War Department ran the US Army, the Army Reserve, and the National Guard.
The Navy Department ran the US Navy and Marine Corps.
In 1947 they were consolidated into the Defense Department, adding the US Air Force as new, separate branch.
THE LEGENDARY "FORK-TAILED DEVIL" !
Der Gabelschwanz Teufel
Visit the Richard Bong museum in Superior Wisconsin✌🇺🇸
Great suggestion Scott
I will have to look for it the next time I am there. Thanks for the suggestion.
Lockheed and Kelly Johnson got used to that speed for protection.
Lockheed always had a reputation for speed. The Electra was faster than its Douglas and Boeing competitors (who beat Lockheed through passenger capacity and thus economy). The Vega-types were record-setters for aviation pioneers due to their plywood fuselages making them exceptionally strong for their light weight.
Back in the day, Lockheed was the aviation equivalent of Ferrari while Douglas and Boeing were Ford and General Motors: Lockheed did small-scale high performance at a comparatively high price-- they made a name for themselves, but not a huge lot of customers like the other companies.
I would love to a solid documentary on Dick Watter-pipe... I mean Ritchard Bong.
1942 anyone?
Best game ever!
It was cool but had a number of flaws they say, foremost it was vulnerable in a dogfight. The cockpit was freezing cold, and it could go out of control in a dive.
High speed compressability was an issue for several WW2 aircraft that were capable of very high speed dives.
The P-38 was vulnerable when bounced.
It was not disadvantaged in a dogfight, if the Pilot was able to dictate when and where it happened. (E.g. when doing the bouncing, or by joining a fight, or while defending bombers).
The primary issue it had was human factors related. It was complex to operate all of the various engine, mixture, propeller, and turbocharger controls. So if ever bounced, the pilot could do little to avoid the attack because the number of steps required to prep for combat was excessive.
Kelly Johnson learned, and all subsequent designs were pilot-focused.
A failure in Europe.
That's simply not true about it being bad at dogfighting. Richard Bong flew one. He was America's top Ace of WWII. 40 kills.
The P 38 was a failure in Europe.
A Mach number 0.68 .it
was really overrated.
At 44:12. My, my how far we've declined. Now, it takes multiple committees at every level of government, government agencies, contractor, subcontractor, middlemen, and others to accomplish something. And they all skim our tax dollars in the process, which certainly does not involve "brevity" and "clarity".
The 8th USAAF flew Photo recon Spitfires out of England. Painted in RAF pink
The Fork-tailed Devil...
...new ideas definitely come after 72 tunnel tests 😅
I've heard some fighter pilots say they'd take the P47 Thunderbolt with 8 50s over the Mustang,with the Radial engine they could take one hell of a beating & get you back But some said the P51 was just a BEAUTIFUL Airplane to fly,only 6 50s But YES with the online engine were more suseptible to to serious damage but the big advantage was altitude & fuel economy. Cover the Big Bombers to their targets & if you didn't get shot they could still do a lot of damage to factories,ammo dumps,grounded planes,trains on return. Dad said the Gruman F8Fs Bearcats were just put on 1 or 2 carriers but the War ended so they never saw action. They were called a Saddle on an engine,they were made to get off the carrier Fast & shoot Kamakazees.
"Take a picture of yourself beside a Mustang to impress your gal back home, but climb into a Thunderbolt if you want to see her again."
It was a flying muscle car.
That was a very enjoyable one hour twenty minutes. What an Ace Richard Bong was and Kelly Johnson was as naturally gifted in his capacity of invention, determination man's clarity in an era of pure human brain matter. No wonder America has sored 5o the heights it has and we need her now vis-a-vis China, but not its complicity with what Israel is doing to Palestine civilians.
Imagine designing high performance aircraft with ZERO computers, and ZERO wind tunnels. The only math tool available was the slide rule and lots of intuitive feel. Before actual flight testing they often built scale models and used high speed fans to simulate flight. LoL.
"One of America's Most Unique WWII Warplanes"
It is either unique or it isn't. Or, perhaps you go to the ATM machine at 9AM in the morning and enter your car's VIN number as your password?
The P-80 wasn’t the first American jet .aircraft. The P-80 was the first successful American jet aircraft. The Bell P-59 came first
You are technically right, as the Bell XP-59 was the first aircraft to fly on U.S. soil powered by a turbojet, given to General Electric by the Brits in great secrecy in 1941 (it flew in 1942).
It was Whittle’s engine, the first turbojet in history.
This said, the first operational turbojet aircraft was the F-80 Shooting Star, also powered by Whittle’s British engine.
It also became Pratt & Whitney’s first turbojet under a license agreement.
The F-80 first operated in limited capacity in Italy during WWII (we posted a photo about that.)
In short the XP-59 was a mere prototype, unfit for operational purpose, and the Shooting Star was the first U.S. operational jet fighter, also initially operating in the Korean War theater, where it had to face the formidable MiG-15, ironically also powered by Whittle’s engine, which was reverse engineered by the Soviets and illegally mass produced after Rolls Royce gave the Russians a few units.
The F-80 proved to be largely inferior to the MiG (swept wings), forcing the U.S. to deploy the F-86, which proved to be a better match.
@ …there was a lot of learning going on. America was playing catch up to the British. Needed a fighter ASAP. Kelly Johnson gave did it in six months. Whereas North American had the benefit of time
My favorite WWII air plane is P-51
The P-51 was a "sports car"! It WAS the dominant fighter of WW II!
Bring back nose art!
The P38 could not match either the FW190 or BF109 at higher altitudes due to compressibility issues. It’s worth watching Eric ‘Winkle’ Browns assessment on the subject. Only the P51 could outmatch Luftwaffe fighters in higher altitude dogfights.
The F4G-2 was faster and more maneuverable than those German aircraft as well as the Lightning especially at altitude.
DP 51 mustang was faster and much more maneuverable and the P 38 I with the famous Merlin engine what is undoubtedly the most famous fighter aircraft in the world
The 51 was still slower and less produced than the F4U
Thanks
Welcome
8:32 So the U.S. didn’t want to give the Brits access to the supercharger technology but the Brits gave us the Jet engine amongst other things…sounds about right.
We did quite a bit to assist our British allies before we entered the war, during the war and after the war.
The brits gave Stalin the blueprints for the bomb. Then continued to funnel vast quantities of information to the USSR, leading to them developing ICBMS. The Brits of the 1940s and '50s were not to be trusted.
@@Triple_J.1. There were several soviet spies with links to the Manhattan project. Two of them were indeed British, the most important being Fuchs. Another was not himself British, but had links to the British contingent. Other spies were American, including Greenglass, Hall and of course the Rosenbergs, who went to the electric chair. These people were mostly dedicated communists, and bear in mind that the Soviet Union was on the Allied side in the war.
@@georgebrooks3873yes, lend-lease began long before Pearl Harbor. And before lend lease there was cash and carry, and destroyers for bases.
American metallurgy was superior to any European nation, be it the British or Germans. Those fellows across the pond may have invented the jet engine, but it was American-built jet engines that could last more than a hundred hours before a rebuild.
That knowledge came from American experience with turbos.
There are no degrees of uniqueness.
No mention of Lindberg in the Japanese Theater?
.30 _CALIBER_ / .50 _CALIBER_ .... *NOT "mm"*
How about the P 40 or the F4F wildcat
Those early designs and the men who flew then tend to get less love.
Not because they were inferior, but because they were there in the dark days of the early war before victory was certain. And enemy superiority was vastly inflated by the ignorant media.
The later aircraft such as the P-51 and Corsair get the credit for winning the war.
But it was the P-40, F4F, Hurricane and Spitfire that met the Axis of Evil on the enemies terms, and stopped them.
I think he's referring to the statement about the p-38 being the only american model to be in production all the way through the war. I'm not positive, but i think he's right - i'm pretty sure both the P40 and F4F were as well. Fancified late war variants were being made all the way through IIRC, just in fewer numbers than they had been, as most capacity had converted to other production lines.
@Tissamo yes you are right about that and they were
They stopped building the F4F in 1943. They stopped building the P-40 at the end of 1944.
@BogeyTheBear better go back and check that again
That plane could NOT be "MOST unique"! Unique means "one and only"! So it was either UNIQUE, or NOT UNIQUE! The author and editors need to go back to school!
My favorite new Fighter F18
21:57 why the moment of silence for ex president Obama?! Lol
Well hearing that it was made until the end of ww2 Why didn't they consider adding the packard merlin engines to this aircraft. I believe this aircraft would have been even better with those two engines!!! It would have been faster, more fuel efficient, all around a better aircraft. Its always politics that spell mediocrity in military equipment!!! Same as the P 39 Airacobra...
I always thought it looked like 2 plane's with their wings cut off with a cockpit in the middle
My favorite overall air plane SR-71
My favorite Vietnam fighter F-4 Phantom
Two 50mm and two 30 mm machine guns? 😂
What's with the "Can we have a moment of silence ..." caption buried in this video?
Kelly Johnson was hired by Lockheed for work he did on the Electra, not the Lightning.
The bomb was dropped on Huroshima August 6th not 7th. Nagasaki the 9th
dolts! not 30mm or 50mm! .30cal and .50cal. need someone with a basic knowledge of the subject matter to review b4 you post. sheeesh! and
'may we have a moment for the president of the united states, mr obama'??!! wtf!!??
The British were stupid as they told them to eliminate the supercharges basically castrating them and then complained about the performance. Nor were they very good tacticians - Gallipoli, Dunkirk, North Africa, and D-Day. Montgomery was a prime example of British excellence - as in not.
2 .30 CALIBER and 2 .50 CALIBER machine guns, not MM.
lets skip the BS History lesson and company background and stick to the P-38
No me imteresa en ingles
Sighs, " unique is an absolute term like dead or pregnant; it is semantic gibberish to speak of" most unique"; X is unique dead or pregnant or it is not, thus it cannot be more less or 'most' unique