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- From: Joseph F Baugher <jfb@ihlpl.att.com>
- Subject: Re: Number Thirty-Eight in the Series--Lockheed P-38 Lightning (1 of 11)
- Message-ID: <BxvFws.9Ks@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Summary: OOPS!
- Keywords: The Fork-Tailed Devil
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
- References: <BxtK7s.1nF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:43:40 GMT
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- From Joseph F Baugher <jfb@ihlpl.att.com>
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- In article <BxtK7s.1nF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, Joseph F Baugher <jfb@ihlpl.att.com> writes:
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- > The Lockheed design staff was headed by Hall L. Hibbard. Working
- > with Hibbard was the soon-to-be famous Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson.
- > After studying a lot of different designs, Hibbard and Johnson finally
- > settled on a twin-boom design with each boom extending aft of the
- > engine and the pilot sitting in an enclosed cockpit in a central
- > nacelle. Each boom was to house one of the new 1150 hp Allison
- > V-1710C twelve-cylinder air-cooled engine with an exhaust-driven
- ^^^
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- Oops! Make that *liquid* cooled. Sorry about the mistake. Thanks to
- those who called to point this out.
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- Joe Baugher AT&T Bell Laboratories 2000 North Naperville Road
- Naperville, Illinois 60566-7033. (708) 713-4548
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