Lockheed P-38 Lightning Aircraft World War 2 Pilot Flight Training Film 1943 - CharlieDeanArchives

Lockheed P-38 Lightning "fork-tailed devil" - World War 2 Pilot Flight Training Film 1943 - CharlieDeanArchives .
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Masterpiece of engineering.

[@russg1801]

Note the startup of the port engine at 3:18; the port engine was started earlier and rotated clockwise as viewed from the front. The engines are counter-rotating to cancel torque steer. The Lightning was one of the few twin-engined combat aircraft with this feature; I believe the Mosquito also had it. This meant that they needed two different Allison engines to power it which IIRC complicated restoration of Glacier Girl.

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[@BogeyTheBear]

Needing two engines that spin opposite ways is not as hard as you fear. The Allison V-1710 engines could be converted to either rotation with a little work in the engine shop on the base-- it's not like you need to send them back to the factory for a rebuild to turn the other direction.

[@paulstroud2647]

Mosquitos didn't have L/R handed engines, just standard RR Merlins, but the single seat Hornet twin, which was the next De Havilland design, did.

[@e.r.1702]

The lightings and corsairs were deadly when they used boom and zoom

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@Armani Zayne happy to help xD

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