Ah, der Gabelschwanz-Teufel as the German’s called it. The Fork-Tailed Devil. I read Martin Caidin book on the Lightning back in junior high, it had this one photo I’ll never forget, sighting the four machine guns through a test fire. The result looked like a missile explosion, totally cool. And the Lightning can claim something no other US plane can, it’s the only plane Charles Lindbergh scored a combat kill in.
Let’s see, the P-61 was the Black Widow and the P-39 ws the Bell Airacobra. But for lesser known planes how about the F7F Tigercat, the P-82 Twin Mustang (which was designed to escort the B-29s to Japan but only 20 were ever produced before the war ended and the bulk of the 270 that were produced were produced after the war, it became F-82 following the redesignation system in the USAF which turned Pursuit into Fighter), and the XP-58 Chain Lightning (I’d call it a P-38 on steroids)
knight1192a over 11 years ago
Me thinks some texting crazy fool is upset he has to work and can’t spend all day doing nothing but texting.
ToborRedrum over 11 years ago
Re-run? Or are all these reruns and I just don’t find most of them memorable?
susan over 11 years ago
You will never find true happiness. Whatcha gonna do, cry about it?
PShaw0423 over 11 years ago
You may never find true happiness, but you’d be surprised how easily you can cobble together contentment.
knight1192a over 11 years ago
Ah, der Gabelschwanz-Teufel as the German’s called it. The Fork-Tailed Devil. I read Martin Caidin book on the Lightning back in junior high, it had this one photo I’ll never forget, sighting the four machine guns through a test fire. The result looked like a missile explosion, totally cool. And the Lightning can claim something no other US plane can, it’s the only plane Charles Lindbergh scored a combat kill in.
Let’s see, the P-61 was the Black Widow and the P-39 ws the Bell Airacobra. But for lesser known planes how about the F7F Tigercat, the P-82 Twin Mustang (which was designed to escort the B-29s to Japan but only 20 were ever produced before the war ended and the bulk of the 270 that were produced were produced after the war, it became F-82 following the redesignation system in the USAF which turned Pursuit into Fighter), and the XP-58 Chain Lightning (I’d call it a P-38 on steroids)