01/31/2008. Remarks from Bernhard Klein: "In 1944 Wright Field technicians removed the turbo-supercharger section from the left engine of the first production P-38 and installed a fully equipped cockpit instead. This was done to test the off-center piloting of an aircraft. Results were satisfactory and information was then used for the North American P-82 Twin Mustang. The aircraft was scrapped at Bush Field, Georgia, on May 7, 1945."