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[compasspnt]

jdg wrote on Sat, 29 October 2005 21:31

ignore the goofy website. but the tfpro p38 is ace! http://www.tfpro.com/products/p38_info.php

I haven't heard it, and it may indeed be ace, but...

Could they possibly make it any uglier?

[Fletcher]

FWIW, we had a P-38 come into the Methods and Applications Lab for a trial... it didn't last very long.  I think their may have been a "quality control" issue [meaning I think the thing might have been broken... because if it wasn't broken I don't know how Ted could put that shit on the street with a straight face].

[Larrchild]

These people who name their compressors after famous aircraft, I swear...

[Fletcher]

That was actually something I dug about the unit... my dad was a mechanic on P-38's during WW-II... always had a soft spot for the twin hull design.

[Larrchild]

I named mine after one of Lockheed's later and faster efforts, which was where the glib remark came from...but yeah, I heard it was a pilot-killer if ya didnt treat it right, but the P-38 Lightning was a flippin' fast and deadly aircraft (to the recipient of it's guns!)!

Designer Kelly Johnson did them both, I believe.

[Ryan Leigh Patterson]

Kelly Johnston was a genious!  My father inlaw met him years ago when he (my father in law) was an engineer with FIAT when they (FIAT) were building the F104 (another pilot killer).  He went inside the Skunk Works, had to pass CIA checks etc...

The thing he talks about the most from that meeting, is how freaking smart and impressive Kelly Johnston was...


Sorry for the OT....

[Barkley McKay]

I LOVED making models of these planes when I was a kid, the P-51 Mustang being my favourite, but the P-38 Lightening was really cool.
Here is an interesting link to the recovery and restoration of a P-38 that was lost in Greenland at the end of WW2:

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=297

sorry to be OT!

barks

[Larrchild]

My spy plane kicks your Honor Student spy plane's ass.

All done with a slide rule too. No CAD. I have more CAD in my SR-71 than he had in the real one! *shakes head in amazement*

[kats]

10 years ago I used to play this online WWII flight simulator called warbirds. Hundreds of guys online at any given time battling it out in simulations of all these aircraft.

Anywho...the bizarre thing was meeting a whole bunch of musicians/engineers addicted to this game. From Grammy award winners to (I even heard Dweezil was a member). So whats the pscychological connection?

Oh, and there was a Fletcher....who happened to be a P38 dweeb  

[Barkley McKay]

kats wrote on Tue, 01 May 2007 17:50

So whats the pscychological connection?

Knobs, dials, things with needles, lights, a sense of power when the levers are pushed forward...


barks

[Alécio Costa - Brazil]

back to topic, I have a Pendulum OCL2 and this unit is great.
NO TDM plugin comes close to it.

[Fletcher]

Everybody at the shop has been drooling over the Vintage Designs CL1-mkII lately... it's almost getting ridiculous how often the thing is getting used.