On June 6, 1944, the Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning made its first flight. Designed as a long-range fighter to improve on the ...

In the brutal air battles of World War II, skill wasn’t always enough to keep a pilot alive. Some men survived against impossible odds - one of them was Jack Ilfrey, a P-38 Lightning ace who defied ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters ... not have wanted to spend 15 seconds this close to a P-38. Need a New Organ? Surgeon Anthony Atala Sees a Future ...

Its armament was impressive for its day ... as shorter-range fighters such as the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning could not accompany them all the way to their targets. The P-51s changed ...

The National Museum of World War II Aviation states, "The P-38 Lightning was the only successful twin-engine ... boom design with a central nacelle (which contained the cockpit and armament). It ...

The P-38 had exceptional range, speed, and armament, excelling in the Pacific theater against Japanese aircraft. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a single-seat, twin-piston-engined fighter notable for ...

The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane in a South Pacific jungle reverberated more than 8,000 miles away in ...

Another image shows a piece of metal stamped with “Model P-38 JK.” During a video news conference from Papua New Guinea, Taylan said that the serial number and model identification prove the ...

and its armament. We excluded aircraft that did not did not make it out of the prototype or concept phase. One of the newest and most iconic aircraft made by Lockheed Martin is the F-35 Lightning ...

Many of those kills happened behind the stick of a P-38 fighter plane nicknamed “Marge” after his then-girlfriend and later wife Marjorie Vattendahl. And now “Marge” the plane has been ...