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"Daryl Hunt" wrote in message ...
"Replacement_Tommel"
'SINVA LIDBABY wrote in message
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hate to bust your bubble but I entered the AF as a Recip Mechanic. It
was
later on changed to Propulsion Technician. My uniforms weren't green.
They
were black.

The P-38 was the first fighter to be able to disengage anytime it wished.
The others didn't have that option. As one Lighting pilot put it, "If I
was
Jumped from above and didn't like the situation, I just disengaged". If
the
38 lost an engine, they found the nearest cloud bank and hid out. Unless
you were in one of the pieces of crap that was sold to the British, that
is.
Now, what was the main difference between the export 38s and the
domestic?
Comon Hero, let's hear it.


They had crappier engines installed in them.

BZZTTT, wrong answer. The domestics had counterrotating engines. If you
lost and engine, the torgue factor was lessened. The Exports had right turn
engines only and were prone to spriral when the Left Engine was lost.



BTW what does that have to do with the statement "Because an air-cooled
engine
is a lot more rugged when hit by groundfire than a liquid-cooled engine
is."?

BTW are you claiming to have worked on P-38s now?

Give your trolling a rest for a bit.



And I trust you know why the P-38s weren't considered a great fighter in
ETO and
why most of them were shipped off to the PTO don't you?

Do you? Or are you going to post something by a long since dead author.
Newsflash, those are opinions as well.





BTW red, he'll just claim that the Air Force History Support Office is
full of it...

No, just you.


So you admit that they were right and that P-38s were withdrawn before the
Korean War then?

My vision may be failing now but it was fine when I saw the squadron of them
overfly the Dairy I was living at at the time. And they were out of Buckley
Air Field outside of Denver. In otherwords, Air National Guard.

According to

http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/...ty/buckley.htm

Buckley was a Naval Air Station from '47 to '59.


Did you also note he went from one to a squadron.....

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