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Part 4 in the P-51 Mustang Series is a once in a life-time experience of flying low level in a wartime P-51! Join me as I get ...
The P-51 Mustang: How a Rapidly Developed Fighter Became a WWII Legend. Shortly after surrendering to U.S. forces at the end of the Second World War in 1945, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had ...
Production of the P-51 Mustang began in 1940 at the request of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) to replace its outdated, and out-gunned, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. The earliest P-51s were powered by ...
A P-51 Mustang flies alongside an F-16 at the National Cherry Festival Air Show 2022 in Traverse City, Michigan. Some consider the F-16 to be the Mustang's modern equivalent.
P-51 Mustang: The Fighter That Outpaced the Spitfire. When the United States Army Air Forces adopted the North American P-51 Mustang, the cost per plane was a seemingly affordable $50,000 ...
Initially equipped with the Lockheed P-38J Lightning, the squadron began transitioning to the North American P-51D Mustang in August 1944. On Sept. 23, McCubbin was promoted to first lieutenant.
A P-51 Mustang sits on the flight line during the 2017 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. (Senior Airman Betty R. Chevalier/Air Force) ...