Germans Never Expected P 38 Dive Recovery Flaps To Out Dive Their Messerschmitts Discover how ⚙️✈️ a small piece of engineering genius changed the skies over Europe in 1944. The **Lockheed P-38 Lightning**, once feared as unstable in high-speed dives, was reborn after American engineers developed **dive recovery flaps** — a seemingly simple fix that transformed air combat. Before this innovation, German **Messerschmitt Bf 109s** and **Focke-Wulf Fw 190s** could escape by diving steeply, knowing
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