Lightning P38 & Corsair Display , La Ferte Alais , 19 may 2013

Display at “La Ferte Alais“ airshow on 19 may 2013.. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning ( Flying Bulls ) was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Named “fork-tailed devil“ (der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and “two planes, one pilot“ (2飛行機、1パイロット Ni hikōki, ippairotto?) by the Japanese,[5] the P-38 was used in a number of rol