P-38 Engine Startup

Chino's Planes of Fame P-38 "23 Skidoo" on engine startup.

Note. Audio should not be used as a sample of what the P-38 sounds like. My camera's small mic was being blown out by the noise of the engine and props.

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[collectorfun]

Is this the p38 lost in that horrible accident?

[gibbage1]

@collectorfun

I dont think so. I havent heard of any recent P-38 crashes and this was shot in 2007. I know the pilot well (Steve Hinton), and would know if this bird went down.

[32459steve]

@mjanovec I stand corrected. Thank you. Anyway you look at it, a real tragedy all around. RIP Jeff and Michael and all those intrepid pilots that went before them. Godspeed.

[mjanovec]

@32459steve Jeff was not flying the P-38 in the English crash at Duxford. That pilot was Michael Proudfoot. Jeff Ethell's crash occurred in Tillamook, Oregon and was thought (by the NTSB) to have been caused by fuel starvation, which caused loss of power to one engine. Ironically, the video Ethell shot earlier showed how to handle an engine out scenario, though he didn't actually shut down the engine...just simulated it by reducing the power instead.

[32459steve]

@collectorfun The crash you're referring to was with pilot Jeff Ethell at an English airshow. There's a video on YT of the crash. Very sad. Amazon has a video which I highly recommend from Roaring Glory Warbirds called The Young Pilots P-38 Lightening. Jeff was the pilot and narrator on that video. He raved about the P-38 and shorly after I bought the video he got killed. Probably a broken control wire. Steve Hinton also has a really good one about the Corsair. RIP Jeff.

[hellesterne]

Wonderful to see the P-38. I remember them so vividly, when I was a boy in WWII. Their engines actually had a most liquid, smooth sound, as I recall. Allisons, weren't they? On Boxing Day 1943, one of them was “hotdogging" with a P-51 Mustang over our house, in Suffolk, England. The Mustang spun in, and crashed, and the pilot was killed. He was from a Polish squadron.

[USSWISCONSIN64]

@jwpatt1st best pilot ever.

[enders2174]

Great aircraft!

[jwpatt1st]

Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) is the United States' highest-scoring air ace, having shot down at least 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor. All of his aerial victories were in the P-38 Lightning. One of his flight instructors was Capt. Barry Goldwater, later Senator from Arizona

[seau2007]

@the82spartans That made this plane very easy to fly with offsetting tourque. The P51 on the other hand had engine tourque out the wassue. Even at take off you could not give full throttle on a P51 until you picked up substancial speed. 

[seau2007]

Dad flew these in WWll. He was station in Fogia Italy in '44 very close to where the Red Tails were based. He had his choice of these or P51s and his sargent talked him into the 38. He never regretted the choice. He told many many stories of his missions. He loved the way it flew with the counter rotating props making take off a breeze and high altitue flying was comfortable with the electric suit and the silk underwear the AAC provided.