And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Four .50cals. in the nose each firing 800 rpms in a center cone would rip apart anything in front of it. The 20mm cannon was the double tap, just to be sure....
Awesome aircraft.
ReplyDeleteThat's "Glacier Girl". She was retrieved from under the ice and snow (268')in Greenland in 1992.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Girl
Four .50cals. in the nose each firing 800 rpms in a center cone would rip apart anything in front of it. The 20mm cannon was the double tap, just to be sure....
ReplyDeleteQuite a collection!
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and here:http://www.lewisairlegends.com/aircraft/glacier-girl
Because they're co-located, there's no convergence distance like there is with wing-mounted guns. You get the whole stream of lead at any range.
ReplyDeleteThe downside of the P-38 compared to single-engine fighters, according to my Dad, who helped defeat the Japanese Empire, was lousy cockpit heat.