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With its two engines mounted on twin booms and the pilot's separate nacelle in between, the P-38 looked like no other plane. Lockheed's brilliant designer Kelly Johnson created the plane in response to a 1937 Army specification for an interceptor that could reach 20,000 feet in 6 minutes. With the engines of the era, this was quite a challenge, and the innovative P-38 design resulted. After lengthy production delays, the Lockheed P-38 appeared.

This model represents the P-38 J-25. Included are two combat versions, one with bombs, guns, and cannon, and one fully loaded version with bombs guns, cannon, and the field mounted "Bazooka" type rocket launcher. A restored version is included which includes a total of four liveries of some of the more famous P-38 pilots. The restored version carries no weapons. Lots of animation and full 3D cockpit. No 2D cockpit but the 3D cockpit is laid out to work well in 2D mode by using the arrow keys in conjunction with the view keys (the A,D,W, keys commands)

More about the P-38 J:

The P-38J finally resolved the compressibility problems encountered in high-speed dives, when a shock wave forming over the wings made it impossible for a pilot to operate the elevators. Once this was understood to be the problem, Lockheed engineers designed small dive flaps, electrically-powered, that broke up the shock wave. These corrective dive flaps were installed on all P-38's, starting with late-block -J versions.

P-38J specs: 420 MPH, four 50 caliber machine guns and one 20 mm cannon, all nose-mounted.