The “first”, “only”, “outstanding”, “unique” – this is how the P -38 Lightning fighter is evaluated by all specialists, and this legendary Lightning really deserves the most enthusiastic epithets. The first American aircraft that overcame the speed line of 600 km/h! The world’s first serial fighter with turbochargers! The only combat aircraft that was mass-produced in the United States throughout the war, from Pearl Harbor to the surrender of Japan! It was at the Lightings that American ASA number one and number two – Richard A. Bong (40 victories in the air) and Thomas McGuire (38 victories) flew and achieved the highest successes. It is the Lightings that owns a record for destroyed Japanese aircraft. It was “Lighting” that was the first to hit a German bomber.
This book pays tribute to the glorified fighter and its leading designer Clarence Johnson, on the account of which the creation of such famous machines as the U-2, F-104 “Starfaiter”, C-130 “Hercules”, SR-71. But his first aircraft rosema was unique, the only one, …
Author
Bear Alexander Nikolaevich
Editor
Nazvinskaya L.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
War and we. Aviation collection
Genre
The history of wars
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