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[max_thehitman]

Amazing looking airplane. I never seen it before. It sort of looks like ...
an IL-2-1946 Frankenplane !
Its kind of funny and charming at the same time. I like the design of it.
It could also pass off as a "Pod Racer" from Star Wars too. AAAHAHAHAHA, maybe that
is where they got the idea from this aircraft.

[CorsairKira]

+1 positive response.  A shipboard P-38 essentially...?  Awesome airplane!

With regards to the earlier remarks about twin engines, two comments.

1. Most light civil planes (like the Baron) don't have the power to fly fully loaded on one engine.

2. The number of P-38s lost in takeoff accidents must have been high, due to the reasons mentioned about high power, and sudden power loss on one side.  Many guys died very quickly without having any idea what had killed them. 

Okay, three.

3.  I've heard an interview of Joe Foss, USMC (ret.) (for Microsoft CFS2 as I recall) in which he mentioned that the P-38s were all over the sky; the implication being that the extra power of the second engine meant that they could do things the single engine types could only dream of.

A neat 50 minute segment on the P-38 in which the engine failure on takeoff is mentioned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7B0WWc4QS4

[Fresco23]

A cool airplane! i like this idea!

[Catahoulak9]

IL-2 is looking so good these days I thought the 4th and 5th pictures were screen shots.

[Wildchild]

The test pilot for this plane also texted the XF4U-1, and said he liked the F5F more than the Corsair.

This plane was also better than the single engine F4F because of the counter-rotating props, there was no propeller torque, and no engine infront, which is a carrier pilots dream.