"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
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> On 9 Dec 2016 04:56:58 GMT, Jess Lurkin <NiceGuy@3456.com> wrote:
>
>>joet5 <joet5@optonline.net> wrote in
>>news:8ubk4ct9oru1lq6p5ask3omgv91sqgit5h@4ax.com:
>>
>>>
>>> begin 644 US 1941-02048 P-38E.jpg
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>>> Attachment decoded: US 1941-02048 P-38E.jpg
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>>
>>Anyone?
>>
>>My first guess was icing tests. But what's the
>>spaghetti hanging off the left wing and weirdly
>>contacting the fuselage?
>>
>>Second guess was playing with the wing-plane/foil.
>>Came up with nada. Not a good guesser I guess.
>>
>>Anyone?
>>
>>At this point, you could tell me it was contoured
>>wing tanks for cold beer deliveries. I'd believe it.
>
> Lockheed P-38E 'Swordfish'
>
> "P-38E Ser No 41-2048 was converted in 1942 as a two-seater with an
> elongated central nacelle extending aft of the wing trailing edge.
> This aircraft was intended as a research vehicle to find ways of
> reducing drag.
>
> It was the only P-38 to have a full dual set of flight controls. Later
> in the war, this experimental aircraft was fitted with enlarged
> laminar-flow wing sections just outboard of the engine booms, complete
> with slots and boundary layer control by means of exhaust bleed air."
>
> - Joe Baugher
Thanks Bob.
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