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May 2015 FLYPAST 81 Lightning i n p r o  l e 10,03710,037 Lightnings were built in total SPOT FACT Deliveries of the mass- prod ...

82 FLYPAST May 2015 Spotlight Lockheed P-38 Lightning 1 Starboard navigation light 2 Starboard aileron 3 Aileron mass balance we ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 83 SPOT FACT The  nal production variant, the P-38L, entered service in June 1944 Inside the Lightning 113113 ...

84 FLYPAST May 2015 Spotlight Lockheed P-38 Lightning U p until early July 1944 escort missions by the 82nd Fighter Group of the ...

May 2015 May 2015 May 2015 FLYPAST 85 SPOT FACT The USAF’s last Lockheed P-38s were retired in 1949 sorties were  own by P-38 p ...

86 FLYPAST May 2015 SPOT FACT The engines were unusually quiet due to the exhausts being muf ed by the turbo-superchargers Soli ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 87 German  ghters were shot down in two missions by P-38 ace Robin Olds P-38 Lightning in combat 55 notation i ...

88 FLYPAST May 2015 SPOT FACT By September 1944 all but one of the P-38 groups in the Eighth Air Force had converted to the P-51 ...

two-seat night- ghter versions were converted from P-38Ls May 2015 FLYPAST 89 P-38 Lightning in combat Left P-38s of the 79th F ...

From The Archive 90 FLYPAST May 2015 Spotlight Lockheed P-38 Lightning Spotlight Next Month Gloster Meteor Next month Spotlight ...

164/15 THE DEVELOPMENT, COMBAT HISTORY AND THE ACES WHO FLEW THEM AIRCRAF T INCLUDE: SUPERMARINE SPITFIRE HAWKER HURRICANE MESSE ...

92 FLYPAST May 2015 AIRSHOW AUSTRALIA 92 FLYPAST May 2015 The world’s only fl ying Lockheed Hudson, A16-211 ‘The Tojo Busters’, ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 93 H eld at Avalon Airport in Victoria from February 28 till March 1, the Australian International Airshow was ...

94 FLYPAST May 2015 FROM THE WORKSHOP HAWKER TEMPEST TempestTempest H awker’s final piston- engined fighter, the Sea Fury, has b ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 95 “To the untrained eye, the Tempest looked close to fl ying status. But as readers of FlyPast will know, the ...

96 FLYPAST May 2015 FROM THE WORKSHOP HAWKER TEMPEST 96 FLYPAST May 2015 a dedicated restoration area in the Weald Aviation hang ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 97 skins will need replacing. The plan is to have the rear fuselage back together by the end of the year.” Hurr ...

98 FLYPAST May 2015 FROM THE WORKSHOP HAWKER TEMPEST wing production at the Hawker factory showing a number of helpful elements, ...

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H atzor Air Base, near Ashkelon, home to a pair of Israel Defense Force fighter units, has its origins in 1942 as RAF Qastina. T ...