# P-38: FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS

National Archives and Records Administration P-38: FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2773 / Local Identifier 18-AF-109. Shows normal and emergency operating characteristics of the P-38. Demonstrates precautions and techniques for taking off, flying, and landing, showing in detail how controls and apparatus should be manipulated. Explains how to take off and fly with only one engine, and shows how to bail out. Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1943
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2773)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.