NORTH AMERICAN P-51 MUSTANG
May 17, 2018
2 minutes
WORDS STUART HADAWAY
The P-51 Mustang is one of the greatest fighter aircraft of all time and played a definitive role in winning the air battle over Europe during World War II.
The initial models with Allison engines had poor high-level performance but excellent lower-level characteristics. When it first entered service with the RAF in January 1942, the Mustang was used mainly for photo-reconnaissance sorties, which rapidly evolved to include ground-attack sweeps.
Meanwhile, the USAAF became interested
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