P-38

Also called �Lightning� fighter-interceptor aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. The P-38 was produced by the Lockheed Aircraft Company, on a design specification of 1937 calling for a heavily armed fighter that could quickly climb to bomber altitudes of 20,000 feet (6,000 m). Designers Hall Hibbard and �Kelly� Johnson adopted an unconventional �twin-tailboom� configuration, in which the