Bailing out of a P-38

[Obergrafeter]

Mudge, I don't think bailing out of a P-38 would be a challange to you...................now bailing into one---there's the challange.

[bdk]

Trimming nose down wouldn't bring the tail down, it would climb up and away. I don't think even a full nose down trim, which you wouldn't have to do to get out, would make the tail sink down below the flight level. The entire plane would just climb, inverted. Just like in formation, when one pulls up for the missing man, the tail doesn't drop.

For an airplane to climb or dive it has to change the angle of incidence of the wing. To do that, the tail has to go up or down. Whether it is enough to matter when falling out, I can't say!

[Pogmusic]

Correction to my previous post... It was Sugar Alpha not Mr. Douglas. Not that it really matters.

[Mudge]

Mudge, I don't think bailing out of a P-38 would be a challange to you...................now bailing into one---there's the challange.

You've, obviously, heard my tale of embarrassment involving Steve Hinton.

Mudge the chagrined

[Vessbot]

My question is, what's the difference between bailing out of a P-38 and any other airplane? They all have tails...