Actually it was re painted OD and went to the South Pacific.
Yeah, I don't think the P-38's saw too much action over Germany, and "YIPPEE" probably spent most of it's time posing over Burbank.
In particular it was the first airplane that could easily get into the transonic speed range, and then its pretty thick airfoil was a serious issue that was impractical to completely solve, once they realized the issue. Brett
Yeah, now that you mention that Brett I think I recall that the P-38 had some sort of issue with compression of airflow or something at extreme speeds in a dive, rendering the plane uncontrollable and/or unrecoverable.
More interesting stuff, thanks Brett.
I am not sure if I really understand some of the comments regarding P-38 operations in Europe. Anyway, just to set the record straight --In August, 1942, the pilots of a P-38 and a P-40 share credit for the first German aircraft destroyed, a Fw 200 Condor, in the European Theater of Operations by the USAAF off the Icelandic coast, In North Africa, P-38's saw action against German aircraft and then moved on to other locations in the Mediterranean, including Italy, where they were used against the Italian and German aircraft. In the Italian theater, P-38 pilots are credited with 608 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air. In the European theater, P-38's were used for bomber escort starting in November 1943 with significant numbers of victories, were later replaced in this role by P-51's and were then used through D-Day for bombing and strafing missions. The German pilots called it der gabelschwanz Teufel (the fork-tail devil).Keith
HI Wayne, I Hope you still don't have the cough. If you do or for the next time, try drinking pineapple juice. It contains four times the stuff in cough medicine to get you to stop coughing.
You dope with a foam brush??? Doesn't it come apart and leave foam bits on everything? (apparently not) Does it take one brush per coat?
I have tried the foam brushes and they do work, but if you get interrupted they don't. Like wife saying it's time to eat or grand kids need a ride.
No kidding. I would never have tried that, convinced that the thinner in the dope would melt the foam before I got done. Now, maybe...
I'm not surprised.I miss Dan's creative writing style...
It's just my opinion, and no offense to anyone else, but Dan may be the best model airplane magazine writer I have ever read. Always entertaining even when he really has nothing to say, verbose but so well-constructed that you don't get the "wall of text" effect, proper grammar, etc. Brett
...sanding, filling, priming, sanding, filling, priming, fitting, sanding some more, filling some more, a little primer, sanding, sanding, measuring and checking fits, sanding, filling, sanding, sanding...
How would two Brodak .25s work for this project?Jim
A little bit getting done here and there. Did the fillet on the outboard side of the fuse pod tonight. Letting it cure overnight and then tomorrow the inboard should get done. The new scoops are also on the booms now and along with their fillets are all sanded, primed, and ready to go. Once the other fillet on the fuse pod is done and cured it'll be time to attach the booms to the wing...then four more fillets...then...
Wayne,Yeah, nice job on the fillets. Send my best to all.
The fillets are done with SuperFil from Aircraft Spruce, it's great stuff. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cmpages/superfil.php?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInOCv4NSw2AIVARcBCh27aQA0EAEYASABEgK8ZfD_BwE