The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was developed in the late 1930s as a long range fighter plane capable of doing whatever it is you asked it to do. Lockheed engineers Hall L. Hibbard and Clarence ...

By: Christian D. Orr Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II.

At Lockheed, the P-38 design was conducted through the formation of a secretive engineering team—an approach that would later lead to the creation of the now-famous “Skunk Works” compartment ...

Object Details Manufacturer Lockheed Aircraft Company Physical Description Twin-tail boom and twin-engine fighter; tricycle landing gear. Summary In the P-38 Lockheed engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson ...

Museum records show that Lockheed assigned the construction number 422-2273 to the National Air and Space Museum's P-38. The Army Air Forces accepted this Lightning as a P-38J-l0-LO on November 6, ...

At the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Burbank, three new mechanized conveyor lines help double the production of the P-38 Lightning, an advanced high-altitude fighter plane.

It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning Fighter plane crashed off Wales in September 1942 Second Lt. Robert F. Elliott, 24, survived the crash but was missing in action later ...

Because it spent its early days as an aviation fuel truck at Lockheed's plant in Burbank, California. And apparently, it was used to fuel the P-38 Lightning fighters that were built there during ...

The P-38 Lightning’s Unusual Design The design process for the P-38 began in 1937, as tensions were building abroad, and as the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) increasingly felt the need for a twin ...