I was having a great time at the Radcliffe Warbird Fly-in last weekend. On my second takeoff, I was dismayed to note that my nose wheel stayed on the runway as I became airborne. Rolled about 30 feet and stopped.

OK, so I'm in the air, otherwise unharmed. I've got two splendid engines, 20, maybe 30 minutes of fuel and batteries, 600 feet of good grass runway, acres of tall green soybeans, a 10-15 mph headwind, 6-10 cycles worth of air in the tanks, dozens of helpful advisors, of whom a handful are truly brilliant warbird pilots, none of whom have more P-38 experience than I do (3 planes, 3 years).

What is my best course of action??

I will accept suggestions and advice from anyone with P-38 experience. I will respond, critique, and discuss......possibly even eat my heart out if somebody comes up with a better solution than mine.

Then I'll tell what I did and how it turned out.

No fair commenting if you were there!!

mt