On Sep 13, 6:35*pm, Wes wrote:
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Some machines exude sex and hormones. *Think Italian sports cars and the P-38 Lightning,
like Raquel in her advanced age, is still hot!

Wes

My father who was an Air Corps ordnance company CO in the Pacific said
the pilots didn't really like the P-38. He didn't know why, but the
plane was very advanced for its time and had a lot of teething
problems, some very serious like loss of control in a high speed dive.
Sometimes the thicker air down low slowed it enough to regain control,
sometimes it didn't.....

The closest I'll ever get to flying one is a sim, where it's not
nearly the most nimble WW2 fighter and can flip out suddenly if turned
too hard too slow. #2 US ace Tommy McGuire crashed that way while
chasing a Zero at low level.
http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_mcguire.html

As far as I can tell the MS sims are reasonably accurate. If so, I'll
take a land-based Corsair, please.

The sim Lightning does have a lot of 20mm firepower and unlike some
others is stable enough to tear up small ground targets from several
thousand feet. In Combat Flight Sim 2 it can set fire to and
eventually sink a warship. Shooting up the whole Japanese Navy in
volcano-rimmed Rabaul harbor on an HDTV monitor is a lot of fun.

jsw