BY REQUEST: HOW TO RETRACT THE LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING LADDER. The ladder is how the pilot would climb on to the aircraft to enter the cockpit. 🤓 SPECIAL THANKS TO JEREMY M. whose idea it was to go to the museum today. @scottklaers for taking time out of his busy day for us. @worldwariiaviation for allowing us such an opportunity to experience and share these rare pieces of history. To @av8rstuff for sponsoring these posts. 🫶 #pilot #aviation #airplane #flight #fly #trendingreels #museum #colo

31K views · 332 reactions | Footage of restoration crews from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force moving the Lockheed P-38L Lightning back into the WWII Gallery. This aircraft and others were temporarily moved from the WII Gallery to make room for the Memphis Belle Exhibit opening events. | War History Online | Facebook

Germans Never Expected P 38 Dive Recovery Flaps To Out Dive Their Messerschmitts Discover how ⚙️✈️ a small piece of engineering genius changed the skies over Europe in 1944. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, once feared as unstable in high-speed dives, was reborn after American engineers developed dive recovery flaps — a seemingly simple fix that transformed air combat. Before this innovation, German Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Focke-Wulf Fw 190s could escape by diving steeply, knowing P-38 pilots risk

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Japanese Pilots Were Shocked by America’s P 38 Lightnings in the Solomons Discover the untold story of how the Lockheed P-38 Lightning revolutionized aerial warfare in the Pacific Theater during World War II. This comprehensive documentary explores the shocking first encounters between Japanese Zero pilots and American P-38s over the Solomon Islands in December 1942, when the twin-boomed fighter's unprecedented speed, altitude capability, and firepower shattered Japanese air superiority. Follow