syscom3
Pacific Historian
The P38's were hard to maintain because their origional design reflected a production rate of less than a hundred planes. Since Lockheed had no expectation that it would be a mass produced airplane, they were essentially designed to be hand built.
The stories about the P38 being a hard plane to master came from the poor training the pilots received in the fist couple of years of the war. Once the syllabus was perfected, the plane became one of the easyist to fly.
Now of course the pilots in the SW Pacific never thought they were flying in an inferior plane and always loved it.
The stories about the P38 being a hard plane to master came from the poor training the pilots received in the fist couple of years of the war. Once the syllabus was perfected, the plane became one of the easyist to fly.
Now of course the pilots in the SW Pacific never thought they were flying in an inferior plane and always loved it.