with several airworthy examples still flying today. P-38 Lightning: The Skunk Works Fighter That Dominated WWII I have written multiple stories on the aircraft originating from Lockheed/Lockheed ...

Developed under great secrecy, the aircraft would become famous during WWII as the legendary Lockheed P-38 Lightning ... and the fact that Hughes’ record still held, as the total elapsed ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning ... flying over a winter landscape. But during World War II, Japanese or German aircraft would not have wanted to spend 15 seconds this close to a P-38.