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Dan Jones
PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:46 pm 
Do the few P-38's flying today still have the electric speed brakes fitted? I'm not sure if I heard this right or not but I just heard something a second ago on tv (Showdown: Air Combat) that suggested that the POF P-38 no longer has them installed.
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Jack Erickson's does. Don't know for sure about Jack Croul's but can ask Jeff Harris.

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...I think i was one of the few who knew how to lower them on the ground, and i don't think he ever deployed them in actual flight. I would assume that the new red bull kept them in place.

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Dan Jones wrote:
Do the few P-38's flying today still have the electric speed brakes fitted? I'm not sure if I heard this right or not but I just heard something a second ago on tv (Showdown: Air Combat) that suggested that the POF P-38 no longer has them installed.


PoF bird is a J-20 model that might never have had them. I know they were retrofitted to some combat J-10s, 15s and 20s, but we'rent standard until the J-25. Could be since the PoF bird was stateside it never got them.
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Dan Jones
PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:06 pm 
Never thought of that. That makes sense. Naturally Glacier Girl and the earlier ones wouldn't have had them either.
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We have them as does Ron Fagens and Tom Blairs, but ours are not installed as we are missing the castings/brackets that they attach to as well as the actuators to deploy them....

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