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On Display at the monthly Golden Oldies Car Club Cruse Night in Overland Park, Ks. on May16, 2009.
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I made it scoop a little bit in the front, and used horizontal ribbing instead of continuing the vertical ribbing.
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Gearhead modifications (time depends - should be about :20-:30 mins):
Note: These steps are done with the gear head removed from the motor until told otherwise.
1. Apply ACC (EPOXY has a better longevity in my tests) to the faceplate part of the gear head (the end of the gear head that the shaft pokes out of) to the post sleeves (you should be gluing 2 brass posts). This is done to strengthen and keep the gear head straight during and after the disassembly/reassembly. In my pics I used used solder but I think this is overkill. We just want the post and sleeve to not come apart. So use some thin ACC or EPOXY.
Car tuning is the modification of a car to optimise it for a different set of performance requirements from those it was originally designed to meet. Most commonly this is higher engine performance and dynamic handling characteristics but cars may also be altered to provide better fuel economy, or smoother response. The goal when tuning is the improvement of a vehicle's overall performance in response to the user's needs. Often, tuning is done at the expense of emissions performance, component reliability and occupant comfort.
As a culture has grown around modified cars the term tuning has grown to encompass the cosmetic and stylistic changes owners make to personalize their vehicles. These changes can range from functional modifications designed to improve the performance or functionality of the car, to visual modifications which alter the aesthetics of the car and, in the case of certain mods, sometimes be detrimental to the performance or functionality of the car.
Here's the stock missile all painted up, sadly paint doesn't stick to the foam, but at least the tip and the fins stayed red after I picked it up.
Added mounting bosses for "low rider" front pannier rack, and guides for wiring for dynamo lighting system.
Here's the air mechanisms for the Titan excluding the valve for the Hornet integration. At this point we have two points that need to be sealed, one on the air tank that originally led to the pressure monitor, and one of the pump that originally led to the Hornet integration point.
You're going to have some difficulty yanking off the tubes after you unscrew the nuts holding them on, they're glued into place and you may have to cut the ends a little to get them off. Don't worry about this, we'll be replacing the tubing with larger and better quality stuff.
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Lockheed P-38L Lightning
P-38 Lightning Development
The P-38 was originally conceived as an advanced, high-performance twin-engine interceptor. On Feb. 11, 1939, Lt. Ben Kelsey set a coast to coast record of 7 hours, 48 minutes in the sleek prototype Lightning, but crashed while landing. Despite the accident, development continued and the first of 13 service test YP-38s flew on Sept. 16, 1940. Early model P-38s experienced turbulent airflow over the tail and problems at high dive speeds, known as compressibility, but later modifications corrected these difficulties.
The first major production version was the P-38E, which had a 20mm cannon rather than the earlier 37mm cannon. Production of the E began in September 1941 and 210 were built. The next version, the P-38F, introduced pylon racks that could carry either bombs or droppable fuel tanks, greatly extending its range. Production of the G began in August 1942, followed by the P-38H in May 1943, which had a more powerful version of the Allison V-1710 engine.
The P-38J, introduced in August 1943, was considerably improved over earlier models. It had better cockpit heating (a notable problem on earlier models), more efficient cooling for its engines, a flat bulletproof windscreen, additional fuel in the wings, and increased maneuverability.
P-38 Lightning in Service
The versatile Lightning performed many different missions during World War II, including dive bombing, level bombing, bombing through clouds, strafing, photo reconnaissance and long range escort. It first went into large-scale service during the North African campaign in November 1942, where the German pilots named it Der Gabelschwanz Teufel ("The Forked-Tail Devil"). When the Lightning began combat operations from England in September 1943, it was the only fighter with the range to escort bombers into Germany.
The Lightning truly shined in the Pacific theater; seven of the top eight scoring USAAF aces in the Pacific flew the P-38. On April 18, 1943, the long range of the P-38 enabled USAAF pilots to ambush and shoot down an aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was the planner of the Pearl Harbor raid and the commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The P-38 became the standard USAAF fighter in the Pacific theater until the closing months of WWII.
The Museum's Aircraft
The final production version was the P-38L, which could carry two 300-gallon drop tanks. Deliveries of the L began in June 1944 and continued until August 1945. Of the 10,038 P-38s built, 3,923 were P-38Ls.
The P-38L on display, painted as a P-38J with the 55th Fighter Squadron based in England, was donated to the museum in 1961 by the Kaufmann Foundation, Philadelphia, Penn. The top hats on the left side of the aircraft represent the nine bomber escort missions flown by its pilot, 2nd Lt. Royal D. Frey, with the yellow hat signifying five and the white hats one each.