Yes Chris, Much of the added range on the P51 did come from drop
tanks. And a lot more (%) pilots walked away from a crashed P51 than
they did from a crashed P38. My dad says that they were worse than the
Me109 to handle at times, you had to constantly fight with them to keep
them in harness.
Rand E.
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Barks wrote:
>
> >P-38 is the Lightning, made by Lockheed, twin engine, twin boom. Plane
> >used in pacific theater due to long range (P51 had long range also).
> >Plane used to shoot down Yamamoto.
> >Rand E.
>
> I thought that the P51's long range came from drop tanks - which was
> a new idea for fighters.
>
> One of my instructors on the Hunter simulator, back in 1978, had
> flown P51s during the war and had had the distinction (for us young
> tyros anyway) of having crashed one and walked away.
>
> Chris
>
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