Friday, January 15, 2021

Looks like Alaska in the background

 


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  1. P38's. Early models with the slanted inlet below the engines. They have mass balancers on the horizontal stabilizer, so not too early. Beautiful and deadly.

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  2. "Fork Tailed Devils" to German pilots....

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  3. Never forget seeing P-38's over my grandmother's house when I was four or five years old right after the War (WW-II, The Big One).

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  4. Lightnings fer sure flying over the Aleutians.

    From here: https://www.google.com/search?q=212908+p-38&sxsrf=ALeKk03quNs5kRa6BhqwwWaAPgrs6tNbjA:1610720751679&tbm

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    1. Read The Thousand Mile war about WWII in the Aleutians. Shitty weather conditions for flying, sailing, ground pounding, shitty all the way around.

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  5. Who cares about the background.

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  6. Spent the winter of 77-78 flying P-3s out of Adak, AK. Tough place to fly with a reliable, 4 engine turboprop with decent navigation equipment. Can't imagine flying a twin engine, let alone a single engine piston plane with not much of any navigation equipment.

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