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Re: 16/3/44 P-38 42-68019
The book 'Losses of the 8th and 9th AF' has a few extra details such as take off was at 11.10H and the pilot initially climbed to 2500 ft on a local altitude test flight. After a while he continued to 25000 ft.
It was the starboard engine which caused the problems. Wells estimated his speed to appx 600mph when he abandoned the aircraft which at that time had started to disintegrate. No explanation of why the pilot failed to get aircraft under control.
No expert on the Lightning's single engined performance, but a qualified pilot should have been able to work out a problem like that. But perhaps there were more to it than just the basic facts listed in the book.
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