Nice Video of Lefty & White Lightning

[Box A35]

Classic

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x90h3t_lefty-gardner-and-white-lighthing_auto

[split-s]

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Think I need a cigarette ...

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[Dave65882]

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Red Bull, if I ever hit the lotto I am so buying and bringing this plane back where it belongs.....

[bikenutty]

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Red Bull, if I ever hit the lotto I am so buying and bringing this plane back where it belongs.....

sitting here eating pizza, read your post and it almost flew across the room, LOL!!!!!!!

[steve D]

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Red Bull, if I ever hit the lotto I am so buying and bringing this plane back where it belongs.....

Good luck with that as I REALLY don't think it will ever come back no matter how much money. Was told by THE MAN himself!

[stuntflyr]

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Chandler, Arizona or Madera, California?

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If the radiators are in the booms, why did they increase the engines' frontal areas in post -H models? Oil coolers, intercoolers, I'm so confused ...

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[steve D]

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Not sure of the exact reasoning but the oil coolers and the radiators were increased in size on the later models, so that alone required a redesign. I would venture the increase in size meant a more efficiant design

[smokeyjoe]

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I miss Leftys demo !!!!!!!!! one of the best !!!

[3dWrightBrother]

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Can never see enough of Lefty and White Lightnin- here's some pics from an old photo album of mine, had to scan whole pages because the photos didn't want to come off the pages after all those years. The black lightning was on the ramp the same year- I remember something about it being repaired/rebuilt after an accident or something-anyone

[Leo]

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The early model P-38's routed supercharger air through the wing leading edges for intercooling. The system worked but was a maintenance problem, easily combat damaged and a backfire through the system could be real bad. The J, L & M moved the intercooler to the chin, allowing more space in the wings for fuel and simplifying the system.
Both White Lightnin' (Modified as Sky Ranger) and Double trouble had the turbo's removed so they no longer needed the big chin of the L and went back to the sleeker chin of the earlier models.

[John H]

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Chandler, Arizona or Madera, California?

Madera, 86 or 87. From Skyfire's Lefty video.

John

[t-dub]

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Can never see enough of Lefty and White Lightnin- here's some pics from an old photo album of mine, had to scan whole pages because the photos didn't want to come off the pages after all those years. The black lightning was on the ramp the same year- I remember something about it being repaired/rebuilt after an accident or something-anyone

I believe that is Gary Levitz' "Double Trouble". If I remember correctly, a crewmember accidently retracted the gear while on the ground. I could be wrong, but that's how I remember it..............