Hasegawa 1 / 48 P-38J Lightning Virginia Marie

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● P - 38 Lightning was a unique style of twin - torn twin enclosure, and it was a different color among American fighters during the Second World War. Although the first flight of XP-38 flew on January 27, 1939, while the takeoff took place, vibration of the flap occurred, three hinges were destroyed, flap operation is impossible at landing, It has become.
● After that, repaired the aircraft, repeated several flights, improved many problems. And on February 11, 1939 a record flight across the North American continent from the west coast to the east coast was done but failed to land in Mitchell Field in New York, jumped out of the runway and wrecked the runway It was.
● However, at the time of this flight, the maximum speed of 676 km / h is blown off and the pilot is also safe, so the effect of this demonstration is great Lockheed company will soon succeed in receiving orders for 13 YP-38 aircraft Did. Initially, the mass production system was not in place, and the first flight of Unit 1 of YP-38 was September 7, 1940.
● After that, the mass production system was gradually improved, the E type of full-scale production type stopped the 37 mm cannon, and 20 mm M 1 machine gun and 12.7 mm machine gun were combined with the nose and became the basis of the P - 38 series afterwards, Subsequently, the problem of engine cooling in J type is also solved by transferring the intercooler just behind the propeller under the engine nacelle, the shape is also styled with a jaw and it is easy to identify became.
● The P - 38J is capable of emergency output of 1600hp (altitude 8077mm) with the same V - 1710 - 89/91 engine as the P - 38H with the new cooling system. In addition, after the P-38J-25 model, in order to eliminate Buffett (vibration of the aircraft caused by a turbulent air flow) affecting the tail wing, we adopted a motorized steep descent flap, used during the recovery of the steep descent, I changed the direction of the air current from the main wing so that the air flow does not hit the tail wing.
● The L type is the same as the aircraft structure after the J-25 model except that the landing light is embedded in the left main wing leading edge, but the engine is reinforced type with the engine replaced with V-1710-111 / 113 .