P-38 "Red Bull"

[Moses03]

Not a fan of the corporate decorated warbird (only noseart in this instance), but this one looks really nice. Reminds me of the XP-38 with the polished aluminum finish.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27706

 

[Hurricane]

I'm not a fan of non-historic schemes but it does look quite good. I think thats possibly because it does look quite close to the XP-38 scheme.
Much nicer than what they did to the sea vixen, having said that it might look nicer in 899sqn colours but it doesn't seem to do much flying any more!

 

[lefty]

Hmm, I suppose by Red Bull standards it is quite tasteful, but still unnecessary in my opinion.
A bit like painting your Bugatti pink.

 

[tigisfat]

I just saw this aircraft a few weeks ago in Abilene. Apparently the place/guy that restores a fair amount of these birds is close to here, and it was in town for avionics work.

I crawled all around and in it for a while (the avionics guy is a buddy). Later, while I was doing touch and goes, it left. It took off as I was turning final; an American Eagle flight holding short said this:

American eagle flight: "Tower, eagle flight xxxx, say type aircraft that just took off?"

Tower: "eagle flight xxxx; You're not losing your mind, type aircraft was P-38 lightning...and judging by his groundspeed, you'll never catch up with him in that regional jet"

American eagle flight: "...............wow............"