What kind of aircraft was the Lockheed P-38 Lightning?

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament.

What did Robert DeHaven think of the P-38 Lightning?

In Eric Bergerud’s Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific, Robert DeHaven, a 14-kill ace with the 49th Fighter Group, describes his reaction to the Lightning: The P-38 was very unusual. Imagine what I felt when first climbing on board that airplane.

Is the P-38 Lightning museum open to the public?

The P-38 Museum has been given the OK under the latest California guidelines to reopen to the public. We are open weekends and would love to have you stop by to check out the new exhibits (including an entire Lockheed Engineer’s office) we’ve been able to build during the months we were closed.

What was the muzzle velocity of a P-38 Lightning?

The rate of fire was about 650 rounds per minute for the 20×110 mm cannon round (130-gram shell) at a muzzle velocity of about 2,850 ft/s (870 m/s), and for the .50-caliber machine guns (43-gram rounds), about 850 rpm at 2,900 ft/s (880 m/s) velocity.

When did The Guardian become a national newspaper?

The Guardian has been awarded the National Newspaper of the Year in 1998, 2005, 2010 and 2013 by the British Press Awards, and Front Page of the Year in 2002 (“A declaration of war”, 12 September 2001). It was also co-winner of the World’s Best-designed Newspaper as awarded by the Society for News Design (2006).

Why was The Guardian called The Grauniad in the 1960s?

Frequent typographical errors during the age of manual typesetting led Private Eye magazine to dub the paper the “Grauniad” in the 1960s, a nickname still used occasionally by the editors for self-mockery.

When did The Guardian report on the PRISM program?

In June 2013, The Guardian broke news of the secret collection by the Obama administration of Verizon telephone records, and subsequently revealed the existence of the surveillance program PRISM after knowledge of it was leaked to the paper by the whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

What kind of aircraft was the Lockheed P-38 Lightning? The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. What did Robert DeHaven think of the P-38 Lightning? In…