Lightning Speed #1 is a piece of digital artwork by Peter Chilelli which was uploaded on May 25th, 2014.
Lightning Speed #1
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... more
Title
Lightning Speed #1
Artist
Peter Chilelli
Medium
Digital Art
Description
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 appeared in force in the Southwest Pacific in mid-1943, and proved a devastating fighter.
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May 25th, 2014
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Comments (3)
Gordon Collins
Nice to see that someone remembers the old P38 . My father inlaw worked at Lockheed as a machinist during the war and had lots of stories about woking on these airplains. Very nice interpretation of the aircraft
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