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Lockheed
P-38 Lightning
1 Starboard navigation light
2 Starboard aileron
3 Aileron mass balance weights
4 Starboard leading edge fuel tank,
total internal capacity 341 Imp gal
(410 US gal, 1,552 lit)
5 Wing-mounted rocket rack (early
P-38L)
6 Fuel filler cap
7 Aileron cable quadrant and hydraulic
booster
8 Trim tab
9 Fixed tab
10 Starboard outboard Fowler-type flap
segment
11 Flap guide rail and operating cables
12 Wing panel corrugated inner skin
stiffener
13 Intensifier intake, cabin and gun
heating
14 Engine exhaust duct to supercharger
turbine
15 Starboard leading edge reserve tank
16 Starboard main undercarriage
retraction jack
17 Engine bearer struts
18 Forged engine mounting beams
19 Detachable cowling panels
20 Coolant header tank
21 Curtiss-Electric constant speed right
hand tractor propeller
22 Propeller spinner
23 Intercooler and oil cooler air intakes
24 Gun compartment access doors, port
and starboard
25 Machine gun muzzles
26 Cannon muzzle
27 Gun camera installation (P-38J)
28 Nose cone structure
29 Four 0.5in-calibre (12.7mm)
machine guns
30 Ammunition feed chutes
31 Cartridge case ejector chute
32 Ammunition magazines, 500 rounds
per gun
33 VHF antenna
34 Aft retracting nose wheel
35 Torque scissor links
36 Shimmy dampers and reservoir
37 Retraction/drag strut
38 Nose wheel door
39 Cartridge case ejectors
40 Nosewheel leg pivot mounting
41 Hydraulic retraction jack
42 Cannon ammunition magazine, 150
rounds
43 Cannon feed chute
44 AN-M2 ‘C’ 20mm cannon
45 Armoured bulkhead
46 Nose compartment sidewall
structure
47 Rocket launcher attachment fittings
(P-38J)
48 Under floor nose wheel bay
49 Cockpit floor level
50 Rudder pedals
51 Control column, offset to starboard
52 Instrument panel
53 Instrument panel shroud
54 Armoured panel shroud
55 Lynn-3 reflector sight
56 Rear view mirror57 Rearward hinging canopy upper
segment
58 Headrest
59 Pilot’s head armour
60 Roll-down side window panel
61 Pilot’s armoured seat
62 Control column hand
wheel
63 Engine throttle and
propeller control levers
64 Wing root fillet
65 Leading edge engine
control runs
66 Port leading edge
reserve tank
67 Chord tank bay stiffeners
and inner skin panel
68 Ventral signal lights
69 Port inboard fuel tank
70 Fuel filler caps
71 Radio equipment bay
72 Tank bay skin panel and
corrugated inner stiffener
73 Flap drive motor and screw
jack
74 Boarding step, extended
75 Step operating
latch/grab
handle
76 Starboard inboard
Fowler-type flap segment
77 Flap outer guide rail and cable drive
78 Starboard supercharger
79 Exhaust gate
80 Starboard main wheel,
stowed position
81 Coolant radiators
82 Radiator exhaust flap
83 Stowage locker, toolkit
and pilot’s personal
equipment
84 Hinged locker hatch
85 Master compass transmitter
86 Fin/tailplane root fairing
87 Starboard fin, fins interchangeable,
port and starboard
88 HF antenna cable
89 Rudder mass balance
90 Starboard rudder
91 Rudder trim tab
92 One-piece elevator
93 Elevator trim tab
94 Mass balance weights,
upper and lower
95 Tailplane rib structure
96 Port fin structure
97 Elevator operating cable
98 Rudder trim actuator
99 Tail navigation light
100 Port rudder rib structure
101 Port rudder tab
102 Rudder hinge control
103 Fixed tailplane tip
104 Ventral rudder segment
105 Rudder mass balance
106 Tail bumper
107 Elevator control horn, cable operated
108 Rudder cable quadrant
109 Tailplane/tail boom attachment joint
110 Tail boom frame structure, booms
interchangeable port and starboard
111 Battery compartment
112 Radiator exhaust flaps
113 Port engine coolant radiators,
inner and outer
114 Oxygen bottle
115 Coolant pipes
116 Radiator fixed intake117 Vertical flare launcher
118 Port main undercarriage wheel bay
119 Mainwheel door
120 Wheel bay and supercharger housing
sidewall structure
121 Supercharger exhaust gate
122 Exhaust driven turbine
123 Turbine and bearing cooling duct
124 Port supercharger
125 Engine exhaust duct to turbine drive
126 Port intensifier intake
127 Supercharger cooling air intakes
128 Outer wing panel main spar joint
129 Corrugated skin stiffener butt joints
130 Mainwheel leg bay mounted
supercharger intake air filter
131 Rear spar joint
132 Supercharger ram air intake
133 Flap push-pull control rod and
operating cable drive
134 Flap shroud ribs82-83_Spot Cutaway_fpSBB.indd 82 24/02/2015 15:44