-
Senior Member
dont' know if anyome has posted it yet...but if there is a P-38 fan like me.....you have to watch this!!!!!
http://p38whitelightnin.com/gallery/
-
Member
Cool Videos...Like the camera views. I would have liked to hear the sounds of the engines over the cheesy "majestic" music. But good find.
-
Senior Member
Yea, pretty cool vedio. But the the corny music ruined it.
-
Senior Member
agree with you...I also liked some shots from the cockpit...but...whe can't have all 
If you like to hear some really good sounds ( sorry no p38
but Corsair and b25J ) you can go there....I hope next flightsim will have those sound effects
http://www.flyingbulls.at/start_fl_e.html
-
Senior Member
Cool video. Too bad she's not flying now, due to the crash she suffered.
Note how Lefty retracted the gear before rotation! Pretty ballsy stuff, there...
-
Senior Member
...and how he's really close to the ground after the loop....
-
Member
Ironic posts, it appears that Red Bull's "Flying Bulls" purchased Silver Lightning after the accident, and are now restoring it to airworthy status themselves to house it in Hangar 7. That's pretty awesome, they're a definite way to keep aircraft flying well into this century due to their obvious financial situation.
-
Banned
If you asked me, I'd say that it's almost a crime what they did to that poor P-38 (not the crash, the modifications). Still, it's a lot better than letting it get chopped up like the rest. Now that was a truly hideous thing to do, cutting up all of those beautiful Lightnings.
-
Senior Member
right. why would any one want to do that. imagien how cool it would be to be rich and own a 38. even if you wernt a pilote. man id have it parked in my frount yeard with a sighn that reads "trass passers will be shot" LOL.
-
Senior Member
Well, even though the brand new fighters that were sold as government surplus immediately after the war went for as little as $5000, that was quite a bit more than most people made in a year in those days.
Hell, I just got my social security statement that tells you how much you made each year of your life so far, and when I checked my first year of fulltime work, I made less than $3200 for all of 1973 (and I thought I was doing great...). With inflation, that's a whole lot less than half that in 1945 dollars.
Once I get my time machine up and running, though, I'll 'discover' a cache of twenty or thirty rare warbirds mothballed on the Arizona ranch I plan to bequeathe myself...
cheers
horseback