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Re: Steve, what was it like?
Posted by Steve Hinton on Fri Nov 01, 2002 02:05:05 AM
In reply top Steve, what was it like? posted by Tony on Tue Oct 29, 2002 09:04:46 AM
: To be in command of a genuine, wartime P-38, how did the f
: light go, how did it feel etc?
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: Best regards
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: Tony :0)
It was fantastic. The whole story of the recovery and restoration of Glacier Girl made it special. The Lightning flew very good. There were no real problems. Bob Cardin and his crew did a first class restoration. Glacier Girl is light even with the guns and equipment, it has early Allison engines with very low ratio blowers wich gives it a lot of hourse power for take off. It only used about 1500 feet and accelerated and climbed out with a lot more ZIP then the other 38's I have flown. We only flew it 2 times so we don't know a whole lot about its performance yet. We plan to fly it again in a month or so.......STEVE