P-38J Lightning update by Allen!

I'll look into the 'Pitch Moment due to Pitch rate' thing. There is a misunderstanding about the roll rate being improved on the J's. The rate of roll was improved with hydraulic boost ailerons but this was NOT a across board improvement. The improvement was for roll around/above 250MPH.

With out hydraulic boost ailerons around/above 250MPH the force need to apply full aileron was too much for most pilots so the rate of roll drops off quickly. With hydraulic boost ailerons the rate of roll around/above 250MPH is a nice curve.

EDIT: There is more than Cm_q Pitch Moment - Pitch Rate (Damping) edit in the attach file. I change it and the AI nosed dive with flaps set 0.80 that gives a stall speed for 80 MPH in AirWrench. In the attached .air I can see that the airfoil has been changed.and a bunch of other things.
 
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Interesting info, Allen. Yeah, I believe I had other changes to that air file that were added from other P-38 air files I had. The correct technical specs of the air file are probably not accurate to the data. I more or less threw it together and tested some of its flight characteristics in sim.
 
Thank you Allen, what a great addition to our hangar ! :applause:

Will textures from the OH P-38F work with this P-38J, or do they need to be edited ?
 
The texture will have to be edited because of the larger engine intakes.
 
Saddly the OH 'Putt Putt Maru' scheme need to be redone. Quite a bit of the color is washed out. If you okay to good in "PhotoShop" the OH texture can be made to work. I only changed 3 parts in the texture.

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