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November 17th 03, 10:30 PM
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in
: "Cub Driver" wrote in message news 
They famously emasculated the Lightning by burdening it with two left-turning engines. The problem with the version of the P-38 supplied to the RAF was the inferior supercharger supplied on the export version not the fact that it had 2 engines turning the same way. While this is true, the previos Dan was correct. The P-38 had significant tail flutter problems with "inword" rotateing engines. This was fixed on American P-38's by having the engines rotate "outword" in opposite directions, however the British version had two engines which in addition to lacking the General Electric B-5 turbosuperchargers also rotated in the same direction. This lead to one of the engines generating the same effect that had been a problem with the P-38 prototypes. 
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