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The Lockheed Corporation designed the P-38 in response to a February 1937 specification from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Circular Proposal X-608 was a set of aircraft performance goals authored by First Lieutenants Benjamin S. Kelsey and Gordon P. Saville for a twin-engined, high-altitude "interceptor" having "the tactical mission of interception and attack of hostile aircraft at ...
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Consolidated OA-10 Catalina Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Aeronca L-3B Grasshopper 42-36200 [36] ... Lockheed P-38L Lightning 44-53232 [65] Macchi MC.200 Saetta MM8146 [66]
— The famous P-38 Lightning Fighter plane flown by World War II ace of aces Richard I. Bong — and decorated with a photograph of its namesake "Marge" — was discovered last week nose-down in ...
Lockheed P-38 Lightning at List of surviving Lockheed P-38 Lightnings, by Ben Bloker Joseph Kittinger 's skydive , by the United States Air Force (restored by Diliff ) North American B-25 Mitchell production by Alfred T. Palmer (edited by Adam Cuerden and Crisco 1492 )
A design of the Lockheed A-3 (Mach 3 ramjet), sketch from Johnson's notebook. Johnson became Vice President of Advanced Development Projects (ADP) in 1958. The first ADP offices were nearly uninhabitable; a smelly former bourbon distillery was the first ADP location, the site where his secretive team built the first P-38 Lightning prototype. [9]