Lockheed XP-388 Fighter Low Operations Pusher - F.L.O.P
Immediately post post War, Lockheed wanted to get faster with a heavier hit using what tooling they had. By using many of the existing, well tried P-38 components, this aircraft came off the Fingerpainting table.. err drawing board in 1947. Envisaged to fulfill the low level interdiction role, it used pusher technology to protect the engines a little more from ground fire which allowed a fair amount of additional firepower to be added in. Sadly this Aircraft did not fulfill this or any role as the prototype was found to be unstable in the air and on the ground and the only prototype suffered a ground loop and was subsequently placed into storage for a review of the design.
If only they had paid more attention to initials of the Military Designation it received. Fighter Low Operations Pusher - F.L.O.P
Started with a Frog kit that appeared 7 years after me, about when I was first getting into models. Clearly garage time has not been kind to this kit.
After a session of hacking and mayhem, this is the plan at the moment.
For starters I think the tail will get a bit shorter before I add more control surfaces, rudders, etc. Plus every chance it will become a turboprop.
Still trying to work out where I can put some spats in, but hopefully this enough off the Wall, that Brian Da Basher may have had a chuckle at it
