Size Duel deck / Ships, aircraft and spacecraft
P-38J Lightning
Length: wingspan, tip to tip
15.8 m (51.8 ft)
A twin-boom fighter with an engine at the front of each boom.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“Wingspan: 52 ft”Hill Aerospace Museum / Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
“Wingspan was 52 feet 0 inches”Joe Baugher, original 1999 history preserved by AircraftInformation.info: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
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