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P-38 Lighting flying training program

On October 20, 1944, barely a month after demonstrating the P-38 to new pilot trainees at Portland Army Air Base, famed Lockheed test pilot Milo Burcham was killed in the flame-out on take-off of the engine of the third production prototype YP-80 jet fighter from Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California. This six-aircraft formation of Lockheed P-38Ls (S/N 44-25257 in foreground), similar to the type used for P-38 pilot training in Oregon, performed the fly-by for Burcham’s funeral. (National Museum of the Air Force, Bodie Collection)

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