Lockheed P-38 Lightning (English Wikipedia)

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Grahame, Arthur (January 1944). "The Facts About Fighter-Plane Firepower". Popular Science. pp. 76–83, 186. Grahame says the Lightning shoots 168 rounds per second (combined cannon and MG), the weight of fire being 547 lb/minute (9.1 lb/second). The 20 mm cannon fires at 2850 ft/sec muzzle velocity, projectile weight 0.29 lb (130 grams), at 650 rpm (10.8 rps). The .50 caliber machine gun fires at 2900 ft/sec, weight of projectile 800 grains (51.8 grams), at 850 rev/min.
Gray, William P. (16 August 1943). "P-38: Lockheed's Twin-tailed Fighter Lives Down Its Hoodoo to Sweep Enemy Skies". Life. p. 51.
Jeffrey L. Ethell (1983). P-38 Lightning. Danvers, MA, USA: Crown. ISBN 9780517552476. ...the 418th, 419th and 421st Night Fighter Squadron were given P-38s.
Cross, Roy (1968). Lockheed P-38 Lightning. John W. Caler Publications. ISBN 9780858800038. Retrieved 25 January 2020. Another experiment was the modification of P-38 40-744 for pilot asymmetric flight tests...
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Don Kieth (2023). Richard Bong: America's #1 Ace Fighter Pilot of World War. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780593187302. 90 percent of all aerial reconnaissance film taken during the war in Europe was captured by smooth-flying P-38s

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Lockheed P-38H/J/L Pilot's Flight Operating Instructions (PDF). United States Army Air Force. 1944. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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Cross 1969, p. ^{[page needed]}. Cross, Roy (1969). Lockheed P-38 Lightning technical manual. Dandenong, Victoria, Australia: Kookaburra technical publications, John W. Caler Publications. OCLC 898545364.
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