Lockheed P-38 Lightning (Blisk) je bil ameriški dvomotorni lovec 2. svetovne vojne. Bil je tudi strmoglavec, jurišnik, spremljevalni lovec bombnikov, nočni lovec in izvidniško letalo."P-38 Lightning." National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved: 21 January 2007. Skupaj so zgradili nekaj več kot 10.000 letal. P-38 je bil lahko prepoznaven po dvojnem trupu, Nemci so mu dali vzdevek "Hudič z viličastim repom". S tem tipom letala sta 18. aprila 1943 v skrivni operaciji Vengeance (Maščevanje) pilota Rex T. Barber in Thomas G. Lanphier nad otokom Bougainville v Solomonovem otočju sestrelila osebno letalo, dvomotorni bombnik Mitsubishi G4M1 "Betty", velikega japonskega admirala Isorokuja Jamamota. Ostanki admiralovega letala so še danes vidni v džungli, kamor je strmoglavilo.

Uporabljali so ga na pacifiških in evropskih bojiščih. Do uvedbe P-51D Mustanga je bil glavno spremljevalno letalo ameriških bombnikov. P-38 je bil relativno tih med letom turbopolnilnika sta zelo zmanjšala hrup in močno povečala moč motorjev in zmogljivosti. Vidna sta ob koncu kril na zgornji strani obeh trupov. V tistem času so bili turbopolnilniki še vojaška tajnost.

S P-38 je letelo veliko ameriških asov: Richard I. Bong (40 zmag), Thomas B. McGuire (38 zmag) itn. Specifikacije (P-38L)

Glej tudi Lockheed XP-49 Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning de Havilland Mosquito Focke-Wulf Fw 187 Fokker G.I Hughes XF-11 Kawasaki Ki-96 Messerschmitt Me 210 Mitsubishi Ki-83 Northrop P-61 Black Widow Westland Whirlwind Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Richard Bong, letalski as Thomas McGuire, letalski as

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Zunanje povezave

Manual: (1943) AN 01-75FF-2 Erection and Maintenance Instructions for Army Model P-38L-1 Airplane "German Pilots Renamed It: Gabelschwanz Teufel (Fork-tailed Devil)", Popular Science, September 1943

"The Lockheed Lightning" a 1943 Flight article "Jap-hunting without a Gun!" a 1943 Lockheed advertisement in Flight "Lockheed Lightning (P-38/J)" a 1944 Flight article

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