From Ben Kelsey’s regulatory end run to Kelly Johnson’s twin boom interceptor, the P 38 Lightning began as a daring solution to high altitude combat, surviving prototype failures, political risk, and ...

Gwalia made it back-to-back wins in the Celtic Challenge Celtic Challenge round three Glasgow Warriors (5) 19 Tries: Phimister, Walker, Bell Gwalia Lightning (7) 38 Tries: Vucaj, Reardon, Greenway 3 ...

World War II was the first major armed conflict in which aviation played a dominant role in all theaters of operations. During that war, many pilots became aces and accumulated numerous victories ...

The Lockheed P-322 Lightning was a designation given to P-38s taken over from a British order cancelled in 1942.This order had been inherited from the French, and had been for a simplified version of ...

On January 27, 1939, the first flight of a long-range fighter jet took place, which was revolutionary in its design. The fighter that killed the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor in a ...

Less than five miles north of Brightwood - deep in the protected Bull Run watershed - lies the place where a young World War II pilot lost his life. For nearly two decades, the forest kept the secret ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, flying over a winter landscape. But during World War II, Japanese or German ...

Recently found in the Vigo County History Center collections was a Koolaire military “P-38” can opener. The P-38 can opener was issued in World War II ration packages, so soldiers could open ration ...

Amazon's Big Spring Sale is going strong, but it ends tonight at midnight. We've been tracking all the best Amazon deals since Tuesday, and while many of our favorites have stayed at their low prices ...

Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other, less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily the ...