Red Bull P-38L update

[Lightning]

Howdy all !

Red Bull P-38L update

http://www.ezellaviation.com/Past%20Pag ... ngfit.html

Keep Em flying !

Lightning

[k5083]

Nice work ... but it will always be "Lefty's P-38" to many of us ...

[Connery]

So is the Red Bull P-38 the former "Scatterbrain Kidd"?

[ww2John]

White Lightning??

[TimAPNY]

They are really making this restoration happen! and it doesn't appear any corers are being cut.

Tim

[frankspeaks]

White Lightning??

We have a winner!!!!

[Shay]

I guess the flashy paint on the Allison is a sign of things to come regarding "WHITE LIGHTNING'S" paint scheme. I think I'm going to Vomit Atleast have the decency to paint her as a warbird not a bilboard.

Shay
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[wendovertom]

Wow, all I can say is that I am glad there are those folks to which a "money is no object" approach is a possibility! A restoration of this level is great to see - while I sincerely would like to see a low level advertising approach to this plane I certainly understand that one would want to be able to write it off as "advertising".

Tom P.

[Randy Haskin]

Notice that in photo #12, they have left a panel of the skin on the left side of the cockpit painted in the White Lightnin' scheme with all the crew credits?

In my book, with the red-and-white engines, a white engine mount, and that skin piece still in the original paint...IS IT GOING BACK TO THE WHITE LIGHTNIN' PAINTJOB??

[Locobuster]

We could hope so, Randy. That panel is not there in some of the other photos. If they're not going to keep it on the aircraft I hope they are planning to preserve it for posterity because there are a lot of great folks listed on it.

[frankspeaks]

Notice that in photo #12, they have left a panel of the skin on the left side of the cockpit painted in the White Lightnin' scheme with all the crew credits?

In my book, with the red-and-white engines, a white engine mount, and that skin piece still in the original paint...IS IT GOING BACK TO THE WHITE LIGHTNIN' PAINTJOB??

I notice that there is an old white piece of skin on the other side also.


I think they are using them to check alignment.

[Dan K]

I notice that there is an old white piece of skin on the other side also.


I think they are using them to check alignment.


That makes sense, but no clecos on the smaller white section though. Was this section never removed during restoration? A mystery to be sure!

One thing for sure though: That fellow with the bucking bar has got to be getting claustrophobia.

[Dan Johnson II]

Anyone know if they're going with the small P38E-H style intakes like White Lightning had or are they going with the larger intakes of the J-L style?

Dan

[Shay]

Anyone know if they're going with the small P38E-H style intakes like White Lightning had or are they going with the larger intakes of the J-L style?

Dan

Huh swap to larger J-L intakes?? Umm why?

I'm not sure but as for as the website leads you to believe it's going to be a restoration not a restification. Well atleast as far as the structure of the plane is concerned can't say much about the paint job at this point.

Shay
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[bdk]

I notice that there is an old white piece of skin on the other side also.

I think they are using them to check alignment.

That makes sense, but no clecos on the smaller white section though. Was this section never removed during restoration? A mystery to be sure!

Most of the panels on the side of the cockpit screw on with countersunk machine screws into literally thousands of nutplates. Unless a panel is corroded or damaged, I don't know why they would replace it (although I do know people who have done things like that, so I wouldn't be totally surprised!). Paint stripper is cheap!

I hope they end up polishing the plane within an inch of its life!