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Dryden Flight: F-51 Mustang.
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My last post in this series of populating the aircraft gallery. This F-51 Mustang, was transferred to the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station in 1950. Records show it was used as a chase and support aircraft on 395 tests. Neil Armstrong was among the pilots using it to chase some of the X series experimental planes. The F-51 was retired in 1959 as a result of a taxiing mishap. It was restored in 1998 and returned to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center for a reunion of former NACA employees.

Credit: NASA Dryden Photo Collection.

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