Glacier Girl Crash

I received an email this morning, stating:
Don’t know if you’ve heard or not but the P-38 called Glacier Girl that they recovered from the glacier on Greenland and restored was taken to England to go into their Air War Museum and during a demonstration flight, the pilot was doing some slow rolls parallel to the runway and [...]

Glacier Girl Back at Chino

FYI, Glacier Girl is back at the Planes of Fame in Chino, CA, for some repairs and is expected to be there until the 17th, when the 475th Fighter Group is dedicating their P-38 Hangar.
If you don’t know her amazing story, read about it here on the P-38 Association website, and then stop by to [...]

P-38 Tail Fin on Ebay

One of our newsletter readers sent us this little “find” on eBay — starting bids at $3,995.
It would be swell if they would donate it to our P-38 Museum instead!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/WW2-Lockeed-P-38-Lighting-Tail-Fin-Awesome-relic_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem255643959eQQitemZ160361059742QQptZMotorsQ5fAviationQ5fPartsQ5fGear

Glacier Girl Heading to Fallon NAS

We’ve received word that Glacier Girl has left Chino and is heading to Fallon, NV.  Our understanding is that she will be viewable there until Friday, when she leaves for the Sacramento air show.
We don’t have the contact info there, and when I tried to reach Fallon’s website I received a security error — so [...]

Free P-38 Desktop Calendar for May 09

Warbird Depot is offering a monthly aviation calender which you can download free of cost to use as your computer’s desktop wallpaper.  This month (May 09) happens to be the P-38.
It is Jack Croul’s P-38L, being flown by our friend Jeff Harris (with Brant Seghetti flying formation in Jack’s N.A. P-51D Mustang) at the 2008 “Wings over Wine [...]