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Lockheed P-38 Lightning

26.0k TheGuyYouMightKnow  6.5 years ago

Just about the millionth P-38 on this site. It certainly isn't perfect but it's as good as it's going to get.

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. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German: der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one e pilot"? by the Japanese. The P-38 was used for interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers and evacuation missions, and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.

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General Characteristics

  • Successors 5 airplane(s) +14 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 63.2ft (19.3m)
  • Length 51.4ft (15.7m)
  • Height 16.6ft (5.1m)
  • Empty Weight 18,552lbs (8,415kg)
  • Loaded Weight 23,854lbs (10,820kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.419
  • Wing Loading 40.1lbs/ft2 (196.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 594.3ft2 (55.2m2)
  • Drag Points 14590

Parts

  • Number of Parts 430
  • Control Surfaces 4
  • Performance Cost 1,422
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    15 CyFi

    I modified your plane into a jet is it okay if I upload it?

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    180 AgentLAL

    lol everyone on here is so pro and I love it-i build mine and I'm all proud of it and then I look on here and there's pretty much scale replicas all over the place

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    Screaming imperial Japanese sounds REEEEEEEEE

    5.7 years ago
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    40.1k Awsomur

    This is awesome!

    6.2 years ago
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    1,453 4404

    @TheGuyYouMightKnow This thing is sexy, bull its over done. Getting my PC tomorrow. The. Ill use it, to many parts for my phone at the moment. Hyped

    6.4 years ago
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    @Tessemi Yeah it's over done as hell but thanks! I appreciate it!

    6.4 years ago
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    @TheLatentImage Thanks!

    6.5 years ago
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    This is pretty well done, nice work man.

    +1 6.5 years ago
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    457 Zomborg

    I cant do it it runs vary slow for me sorry just try to add some rokets or 2 1000lbs bombs

    6.5 years ago
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    457 Zomborg

    Im going to downlode it and realise an improved one with weapons

    6.5 years ago
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    @Delosofy Thanks! I'll try to tune in!

    6.5 years ago
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    @DragonAerotech It is mobile friendly, if you're on IOS you'll get a warning about the size but it should be fine. I usually try to make my more detailed planes mobile friendly if if I can!

    6.5 years ago
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    @TheGuyYouMightKnow Don't get me wrong, looks great as is and yes, its likely cleaner w/o the custom landing gear. Furthermore the smaller part count might even make it low enough to be friendly to mobile users. ^_~

    6.5 years ago
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    @DragonAerotech Thanks! I went with default landing gear because I thought it looked cleaner but I do wish I had done my one gear, but its a bit late to change it now XD

    6.5 years ago
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    @Sunnyskies Thanks a bunch!

    6.5 years ago
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    @TheGuyYouMightKnow I've always been a fan of twin-boom aircraft,so when I see this pop up in my jetstream with that detailed office, of course you're going to get my vote! She looks nice, I won't be able to look closer/fly her for a while but from what I see I like it! With all the detail though, why did you go with stock landing gear rather than building up detailed replica landing gear? No criticism intended, only curious!

    6.5 years ago
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    26.9k Sunnyskies

    @TheGuyYouMightKnow Added.
    Overall score 9/10. Very nice plane. Best cockpit I've seen yet in a P-38. Be very proud of that.

    6.5 years ago
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    @Trainzo Thanks!

    6.5 years ago
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    38.2k Trainzo

    Very good job . Great plane .

    6.5 years ago
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    @temporaryaccount I'm aware it's a joke, I've gotten "do I know you?" About a million times and I always reply with "you might" because it's part of the name.

    6.5 years ago
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    @temporaryaccount You might.

    6.5 years ago
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    @Liquidfox Thank you! I've come to have a distaste for P-38s too but I couldn't find any with a cockpit (I didn't look for very long so there may very well be other P-38s with cockpits) so I thought i'd try to spice things up with a more detailed one.

    6.5 years ago
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    @Sunnyskies I must admit that it doesn't perform as well as I'd like it to but there's only so much I can do to make it better.

    6.5 years ago
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    11.4k shipster

    @Sunnyskies alright

    6.5 years ago
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    26.9k Sunnyskies

    @shipster Maybe as far as raw aestheticism is concerned. It is one of the nicer-looking ones. Though, as soon as I'm done nitpicking every aspect of the plane, we'll see where it places compared to the rest.

    6.5 years ago
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