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The US Air Force P-38J Lightning "Pudgy" hand made wood model airplane is made of the finest kiln of dried mahogany and carefully hand crafted by our master craftsmen. From the most complicated details up to the simplest ones, the Air Force P-38J Lightning "Pudgy" hand made model is hand painted. Some parts of it are made of hand molded resin. In addition to that, after each step is completed, the US Air Force P-38J Lightning "Pudgy" mahogany model plane is being checked for any revisions before it goes to the next step thus, this is an assurance that each step is well done. This P-38J Lightning "Pudgy" model airplane has a scale of 1/32, a wingspan of 19.5" and fuselage length of 14.25". Each US Air Force P-38J Lightning "Pudgy" Mahogany Model Aircraft is place in a box with foams shaped according to the form of the model aircraft thus this ensures that each model delivered to our customers is damage free.

History:

Introduced in August 1943, the P-38J Lightning the revised version of the P-38F variant. The versatile aircraft features a revised powerplant installation, with the intercooler being changed to a core-type radiator located below the engine. In the P-38J model, the streamlined engine nacelles of previous Lightnings were changed to fit the intercooler radiator between the oil coolers, forming a "chin" that visually distinguished the J model from its predecessors. The final 210 J models, designated P-38J-25-LO, alleviated the compressibility problem through the addition of a set of electrically-actuated dive recovery flaps just outboard of the engines on the bottom centerline of the wings. With these improvements, a USAAF pilot reported a dive speed of almost 600 miles per hour (970 km/h), although the indicated air speed was later corrected for compressibility error, and the actual dive speed was lower.