When I was an inspector of aircraft altimeters I worked with a Raymond Whitehouse. He had worked at a company in WW2 that made parts for the P38. It might have been hydraulic pumps but I cannot recall. Ray discovered a problem with the parts and red tagged them. He said a supervisor came and took them off saying they were made to "government specifications" per government contract. Ray wrote to the appropriate government office who investigated. He had a framed letter in his inspection cage. It said the government was changing that government specification. He also had a poster listing government specifications which included the revised specification that matched his framed letter. He would point at it proudly and say "That's my spec!"
@dougauzene83894 жыл бұрын
My Great - Uncle Jerry Finn Built P -38s throughout WWII @ Lockheed's Burbank plant; Went to school with test pilots Milo Burcham's & Jimmy Mattern's grandkids; met Tony LeVier & Richard Bong's widow Marge later ln life; Still my favorite WWll fighter plane!
@Roodosutaa14 жыл бұрын
I love how at the start of this instructional film they're already telling you how to bail out of it! :)
@jakobc.25583 жыл бұрын
The P-38 is extremely missrepresented in a lot of world war 2 air combat games, particularly in war thunder. For its time it was an amazing fighter, probably the best fighter for its time.
@trilingual13 жыл бұрын
Airboyd: Thanks for this and other such videos! We get a sense of the times as well as detailed info about the aircraft we love : )
@Velo10104 жыл бұрын
I just enjoy the honesty and candid ad. It’s like a salesman selling a car.
@davewickizer45063 жыл бұрын
My dad's outfit in Luzon got hold of a few during the war and he loved flying it when they could. Though he was a p40 and p47 guy. He actually flew it and I was lucky enough to ride in one with him when I was little. Scared me. The plane is powerful
@williamgreenough83504 жыл бұрын
my dad would have liked this film. he was a flight instructor in the rcaf back in the 50's and early 60's. sadly both him and my brother have their wings now :-(
@ncktbs12 жыл бұрын
i always thought it was amazing how much the p38 and the me 262 look like from the front
@RussRamz12 жыл бұрын
I wish pilot training was conducted like this today!
@connorm0911 жыл бұрын
I just realized I've been watching this for twenty minutes. I eat this stuff up.
@rthistlethwaite34303 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@dasUBootVII12 жыл бұрын
there had been a serious problem with cockpit temp control in high altitude scraps over Europe...some of those got up to around 40,000 where the air temp is about -70 F
@Hotshotter300012 жыл бұрын
Not desintegrate. What you're referring to is the flutter effect. What happened to the P-38 was called compressability, which was something that was poorly understood at the time. It made the controls of the plane very unresponsive.
@mickkennedy13445 жыл бұрын
Milo: "Ok, Tony, I want you to simulate take off with NO engines."
@stay_at_home_astronaut3 жыл бұрын
Tony LeVier could do it.
@helenjohnson94843 жыл бұрын
Ppl Mo
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
Tony: *Breaks out a cigarette and starts smoking* Milo: Good show, Tony.
@rcflux12 жыл бұрын
love these old videos! Thanks for uploading them :)
@jakobole13 жыл бұрын
I love that plane - does it come in black, and when do you deliver ;)
@AceSPG13 жыл бұрын
I don't know about you guys but I think the coolest planes were made during WWII
@hardtackjack12 жыл бұрын
Ah the days when engineers wore trousers, ties, and vests while testing out high-powered machinery!
@madcrowmaxwell14 жыл бұрын
By far the most awesome fighter plane of all time. Heck, they must have even recognized back then given that it got a COLOR training film rather than the B&W training films for other planes,,,
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
The factory was practically next door to the Hollywood movie studios. Getting the best film would have been easier for them than with other companies.
@bartacomuskidd437212 жыл бұрын
i love the cartoons.. do you think our current USAF training videos have the animaniacs teaching flight characteristics of the joint strike fighter? cow and chicken explaining flight procedure of an ac-130? spongebob and patrick teaching dog-fighting in the raptor..
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
Well, having Disney studios practically just down the street made it really easy for Lockheed to get some animation work on their training films.
@dongmo111 жыл бұрын
This is a great video of a great aircraft. Thanks for posting
@lopezj111 жыл бұрын
i'm pretty sure it was. Burbank Airport used by the Lockheed Plant.
@daffidavit5 жыл бұрын
The term "hanger experts" goes back as far as the date of this film and probably much farther back. Now we call them "hanger flyers" but at least we know were there term came from.
@scaryfasthummer11 жыл бұрын
Planes are cheap, pilots are expensive. Keeping the pilot alive is job #1.
@notaire26 жыл бұрын
A good instruction film for the pilots and at the same time a nice advertisement to the military. All in color!
@madzen1122 жыл бұрын
Nice of them to make a bailout guide
@justaguitardude12 жыл бұрын
i remember a wII vet who flew these birds, said you could do things you could not in a single prop. and he would tale this to a dog fight first. he had a lot of confirmed kills. something about being about to fly the plane against the single prop. you could turn faster by cutting power to one of the engines etc. like any tool, you have to understand the basics, before you can truly take advantage of whatever the machine was built for. wish i could remember who or where i read or saw that.
@Yosemite-George-6112 жыл бұрын
6:24 notice the pilot has thick socks... one thing P-38 drivers where known for : Frozen feet... :)
@hoppinonabronzeleg12 жыл бұрын
@cobrachoppergirl The props were controlled electrically by an automatic pitch control system, if the revs go too high, the revs get out of control, overspeeding can lead to oil pressuredrop/oil starvation/bearing damage. All bad news. In the film they tell you 15 secs is a long time to comit 1 hand to 1 control, throttling back was the answer, so that then you can pop the breakers back in. Hope this helps!!
@retrovideoquest12 жыл бұрын
No word on the tendency of the P-38 to desintegrate in high-speed dives... Reportedly the P-38 was one of the first aiplanes that would actually reach the speed of sound in powered dives, and would break up in flight when that happened... Research into these high-speed "freak accidents" would lead into the X planes supersonic speed research...
@argonwheatbelly6375 жыл бұрын
Bad buffeting, but with dive flaps, and careful attention, you could prevent that. ;-)
@garytarr82163 жыл бұрын
Bullshit !!! The P 38 hsd a pathetic Mach limit of 0.68!!!
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
The airspeed gauge tops out at 700 (gotta hand it to those boys-- they were optimists!) and pilots reported their gauges pegged in these dives-- this was from the shockwaves in the pitot giving false readings.
@AlanRoehrich9651 Жыл бұрын
@@garytarr8216 Which means nothing, it absolutely *can* pull out of a compressibility dive. And did so regularly.
@madzen1122 жыл бұрын
Fav WW2 twin-engine, just ahead of the Mosquito and Me 410
@thewadriner187210 жыл бұрын
So this is what 1943 looked like...
@jakobc.25583 жыл бұрын
I know right? Besides all the information about the P-38, seeing 1943 in color is also extremely interesting and a big reason for watching this film.
@irish8905512 жыл бұрын
Stearman escort... love it..
@TheMightyHartley12 жыл бұрын
So claustrophobic with two in the cockpit, lol!!
@manifestgtr12 жыл бұрын
those piggy back p-38s must've been hell on earth....especially if you were tall
@lestermiller27174 жыл бұрын
manifestgtr I could never figure out why they never stretched the center pylon a couple of feet to help with that problem. 2-3’ feet would of made a big difference,
@georgewhitworth97424 жыл бұрын
@@lestermiller2717 That would entail burdening Lockheeds already stretched thin production lines, and would need redesigning for center of balance, new center fusalage parts, new canopy design, enough room to install another cockpit, which must mirror the front one, so it would be another five to six feet, rather then two or three
@phil12371112 жыл бұрын
Beautiful aircraft.
@Milkmans_Son3 жыл бұрын
I'm no hanger expert, but wouldn't most bailouts be performed with the windows open (thus disturbing airflow and causing the wake to hit the tail)?
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
If you're leaving the airplane, the buffet is the least of your concerns.
@cbwavy13 жыл бұрын
oh man, that passenger seat is crazy lol.
@nagoya6toto14 жыл бұрын
TNK'S NICE GOOD VIDEO UP LOADED
@Malibucompany12 жыл бұрын
Was that Burbank Airport?
@kristjanbirnirivansson5282 жыл бұрын
You got to wonder who made the animation bits:
@BogeyTheBear Жыл бұрын
Warner Bros and Disney are literally on the other side of town from these guys.
@choppergirl13 жыл бұрын
What does he mean by the propellors / engine running wild
@AlanRoehrich96512 жыл бұрын
The propellors will go to fine pitch, and the engines will over speed.
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
The speed of the engine is being held back purely by the wind resistance of the propellor blades. If the propellor is broken, the engine will overspeed.
@choppergirl2 жыл бұрын
@@BogeyTheBear Yeah that's when instinct tells you to hit the kill switch or chop the throttle...
@johnburton78603 жыл бұрын
I had a great uncle that flew a recon p38
@NoRpl8cmnt4Dspl8cmnt11 жыл бұрын
hahahaha 14:04 "If for any reason the flaps will not extend, the airplane lands well enough without them....."
@imapaine-diaz44513 жыл бұрын
17:53 I can pretty well see why men over about 5' 9" or so didn't qualify to fly the '38. Jeeze, there not much room in that cockpit! May dad trained in advanced flight school to fly the P-38 until he got injured and transferred to the field artillery to fly as a spotter. He was 5' 10" and he said he barely fit!
@dasUBootVII12 жыл бұрын
they had a charisma....
@pumatraca7 жыл бұрын
l'd like to see some practice with "Left engine failure", the critical engine!
@argonwheatbelly6375 жыл бұрын
@HiWetcam : I wish it had a better oil pump system to permit extended inverted flight, even thought the WD deemed it unnecessary to dog-fighting. She's still my favorite ship!
@rayg90694 жыл бұрын
@HiWetcam Yes left engine is the one powering the generator, lose the left and flight time is limited to how long the battery holds charge.
@rayg90694 жыл бұрын
@HiWetcam My bad, so yes the craft could still fly but possibly with no radios or instruments?
@duanesamuelson22563 жыл бұрын
@@rayg9069 I thought both engine and booms were identical other than reversed rotation and there being a battery in the left (and a tiny storage area in the right). Of course that may have only been the radar equipped variants, those early tube radars ate power.
@BogeyTheBear2 жыл бұрын
It's a little complicated. To begin with, every P-38 came with a generator on the left. A lot of early birds only had the one generator when they came off the assembly line because they didn't know if they would have enough to go around. But generators _did_ come around, and soon enough you might just get a P-38 off the assembly line with two generators installed. And just because your P-38 might have had only one generator when it was built doesn't mean it had to stay that way, and practically every P-38 would get a second generator installed by Army mechanics on the field... ... but, we're talking about Army here, and you can't count on the field-installed generator to stay under warranty, in a manner of speaking. So, the rule was you could practice single-engine flight with your right engine/generator _if your generator was installed at the factory,_ where it was signed off and certified. If your mechanic added a generator to your right engine, rule was you still practiced with flying on the left engine only.
@davegeisler78023 жыл бұрын
P38 were interesting , did very well in the Pacific theatre ( Bong 40 kills ) , but not so much over Europe in fact Gen. Galland of the Luftwaffe said that it was an easy kill , fwiw.
@AlanRoehrich9651 Жыл бұрын
Galland was a notorious liar. Read Steinhoff, who commanded the post war Luftwaffe.
@FLJuJitsu12 жыл бұрын
P-38, my favorite WWII fighter
@chipaultman35635 жыл бұрын
Orlando 1701 only built one with merlins
@chipaultman35635 жыл бұрын
One with packards.
@georgewhitworth97424 жыл бұрын
@@chipaultman3563 Okay?
@AlanRoehrich96512 жыл бұрын
Actually, no P-38 Lightning ever flew with Merlin engines, Packard or Rolls Royce. The Merlin literally will not fit in the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning. A design study was conducted. The Merlin would have reduced performance in every category.
@AlanRoehrich9651 Жыл бұрын
@@chipaultman3563 Never.
@DoctorHver13 жыл бұрын
Any clue were the animation comes from?
@BogeyTheBear3 жыл бұрын
Hollywood. Literally the next town over from Burbank where these planes were built.
@duanesamuelson22563 жыл бұрын
@@BogeyTheBear actually I think Disney in burbank...but I definitely could be misremembering
@Ferr19633 жыл бұрын
2:07 That guy was strafing Malibu?
@LamEric12 жыл бұрын
if you got F18/ F22 tutorial, please upload it and i will drive it to the sky
@doginstine13 жыл бұрын
Disney studios made the training cartoon for the US.
@DenPay13 жыл бұрын
I want one.
@FranktheDachshund8 ай бұрын
Two guys in one P38 who knew? 28:44
@williamkillingsworth26194 жыл бұрын
16:18 the 2hits of acid the pilot took pre flight have kicked in.
@WomackPhotoKCMO8 жыл бұрын
Too small for a crew of 2. Claustrophobic.
@thehangmansnoose112 жыл бұрын
world class bad-ass
@KB4QAA11 жыл бұрын
This guy's callsign is "Dead Meat".
@L33tP1ckL14 жыл бұрын
A true, multi-role ass kicker!
@raymondweaver85266 жыл бұрын
A huge fighter
@Pambofilms11 жыл бұрын
1943 GoPro angles
@JIMJAMSC Жыл бұрын
So many gauges and gauges with needles, red lines, numbers and more gauges. All the little levers, big levers, buttons, switches on top of more switches !!!!!!!! And not a MFD/ laptop or I phone in sight!! Don't get me started on all the smoke and noise.
@TheProdigy8714 жыл бұрын
16:15 Hell yeah! LSD!
@MrTrevisol413 жыл бұрын
@flexyco Me too, don't forget it have airbrakes ; ) for dive bombing.
@AirAmbassador13 жыл бұрын
@cobrachoppergirl skip to 17:45 and it explains
@JPF12311 жыл бұрын
If only technology had stopped advancing in 1944 war would be so much better...
@JB-yb4wn4 жыл бұрын
Their one purpose, to ambush Yamamoto over Bougainville.
@garytarr82163 жыл бұрын
Yeh what a coup shooting down an unarmed transport plane!!!
@JB-yb4wn3 жыл бұрын
@@garytarr8216 You know, Gary, are people too stupid these days to do little a research before they say such moronic things? The Betty was armed to the teeth and Yamamoto had 6 fighter escorts. Here is the only one who survived the ambush, Kenji Yanagiya, a top fighter ace of the Imperial Navy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Yanagiya
@georgew.56394 жыл бұрын
It’s corny to have the student behave like a child. But I guess that’s the way they did it then.
@georgewhitworth97424 жыл бұрын
Well, they were only in their twenties. Heck, I'm in my twenties and act like that. Haha
@retrovideoquest12 жыл бұрын
Can't believe the dramatic music score at 31 min... It's a TRAINING VIDEO...! :-\
@Yosemite-George-6112 жыл бұрын
Jets are for kids ;)
@andrealiechti37652 жыл бұрын
Hesch da hinten gemacht ja nied obe uf
@rollingstopp8 жыл бұрын
. ****** 38'S 4 EVER
@andrealiechti37652 жыл бұрын
Bitte
@skipplet14 жыл бұрын
That looks like a very uncomfortable sitting position.
@Tubonaso12 жыл бұрын
It's USAAAFEty first
@中原久雄-v8n2 жыл бұрын
P-38,P-39良いアイデアまた操縦席の機能超近代的やはりアメリカはすごい
@daffidavit5 жыл бұрын
The original FAA regulations we all learned from as student pilots back in the 1960s were based on what was learned from WWII fighter pilots. The procedures for learning stalls were also learned from the heyday of pilots from the 1940s-60s. It's a sorry sight today that the present FAA has taken away knowledge from the true pilots and is teaching them to become a bunch of wusses for new students. FAA, why have you turned what was a well-established protocol into new procedures only baby wusses can handle? Please explain why modern-day pilots can no longer be allowed to demonstrate power-on stalls with a full brake (break) anymore? Who taught you guys how to fly? Who is your Co-pilot? God, or your lawyers? "God is my Co-Pilot". FAA, who is your co-pilot?
@andrealiechti37652 жыл бұрын
Chumer noch kranz
@garyschiffli10433 жыл бұрын
How did we go from people who can design,fly and explain how to fly this plane to people who can’t decide what gender they are?
@garytarr82163 жыл бұрын
P.38 was worse than useless until late 1943 when they had finally sorted out all the problems and the L version was introduced . No comparison to the alll round versatility and excellence of the De Havilland Mosquito
@duanesamuelson22563 жыл бұрын
Mosquito couldn't hang in combat with single engine fighters in aerial combat. P-38 could and did. Not taking anything away from the Mosquito, great aircraft...it just wasn't the twin engine fighter it was originally designed as.
@AlanRoehrich96512 жыл бұрын
The P-38J was introduced in August of 1943. The P-38L was introduced in June of 1944. Several pilots made ace before either were introduced. So, no, it was hardly "useless".
@BogeyTheBear Жыл бұрын
Tell that to Admiral Yamamoto, who was killed by a flight of P-38Gs.