P-38 Design Analysis

• Jun 21, 2019

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MIflyer

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I see that someone has posted some info on the P-38 from the Aug 1944 issue of Aviation Magazine. I assume this is the Design analysis, and I sure thought that I had posted it back when I posted the others that I have but I cannot find it on this website. In any case, here it is. I also have a higher resolution versions scanned directly from a paper copy of the magazine in case someone wants something specific. I am also including a rather poor quality copy of an Aviation article on the P-38 production line.

 

• Jun 21, 2019

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MIflyer

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And here is the production line article.

 

• Jun 24, 2019

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This item is wunderfull. Thanks you very much to share it! Specialy the modelbuilder like me. 3 kits 1/32 Trumpeter and Revell (fighter and pathfinder) can now be made as real as possible. It make me curious, is there more about the 'bombedier' room of the pathfinder? (Excuse my English!)

 

• Jun 25, 2019

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Not that I know of. But they did build an ECM version of it, with an electronic warfare operator in the nose.

 

• Jun 25, 2019

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Great stuff! In some of the last pages showing the production line, I actually worked in that building in the late 1980s. During the last years Lockheed was in Burbank, that facility (Plant B1) housed the machine shops.

 

• Jun 27, 2019

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Here is a pretty good little article from the Jan 1943 issue of Flying Aces.

 

• Jun 28, 2019

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Thanks MIflyer, if you could post the hi-res pdf version of the design analysis, that would be awesome!

 

• Jun 28, 2019

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MIflyer

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It is not PDF but .BMP Perhaps that other one is PDF and high res? Have not looked at it.

I just found that the website will not let me post the individual high res pages scanned from the paper copy of the magazine. So I guess that settles that.

 

• Jun 28, 2019

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OK Thanks!

 

• Jun 29, 2019

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MIflyer

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I guess I can open each page as a BMP in a photo editor, crop as required, and then save as a .jpg or .png but that will take a while.

 

• Jul 8, 2019

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Elmas

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Great stuff.

 

• Jul 8, 2019

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fubar57

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M MIflyer This might work BMP to PDF - Online Converter

 

• Jul 9, 2019

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kind of interesting that Timken was big on this. they made roller bearings. other than the wheels for the landing gear i can't thing of too many other things on the ac would be roller bearings. i have never run into those doing engine, transmission, etc work. roller bearing tend to need to be "loaded". while i was in the auto parts biz that was the main and pretty much only reason i sold rollers...maybe flyboyj has seen them elsewhere.

 

• Jul 12, 2019

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GreenKnight121

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It seems that you didn't post the 3rd image of the design analysis article.
That would be P-38DesignAnal-3, pages 126 & 127 of the article.

The same is true of the production line article - this time the image title is P-38Line-04, but again pages 126 & 127 of the article.


Otherwise - great stuff! Thanks.

 

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• Sep 30, 2019

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1942 Drag Analysis of the Lockheed YP-38 Airplane

 

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