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Dryden Flight: F-51 Mustang.
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Uploaded: 10/16/07 10:13 AM GMT
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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.FlimBB
10/16/07 1:50 PM GMT
She looks a little dinged up, but she has been around a while. I'm always thrilled to see these old birds flying. My dad loved P-51's (I'm not sure what makes this an F). His lost a wheel in the late 40's and he landed it that way; it was a big to-do in the papers back then. He told me that if had been any other plane he flew he would've bailed. But he loved his mustang.
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Mike – The P designation was changed to F at the start of the fifties I believe, The P stood for pursuit and F for fighter – under the new USAF designations – P became the moniker for photo recon aircraft. At least that’s how I understand it.
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My favorite old war bird. Nice post Phil..........p.s. I still have a model I made as a kid. LOL
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I think most historians prefer describing it as having tipped the balance in favour of the allied forces in Europe; in that once it had been modified by fitting it with the Spitfires Merlin Rolls Royce engine it had sufficient range to escort Allied bombers over Europe where they had previously been vulnerable to attack.
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The original denomination was P-51. Link.
The first P-51A (year 1942) received an Allison engine, like the P-40 and P-38. It was not the best. Then North American tried a new version with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine built by Packard (same engine than the Spitfire). It was the P51-B, probably the best fighter of WWII.
Thank Phil :-)
The first P-51A (year 1942) received an Allison engine, like the P-40 and P-38. It was not the best. Then North American tried a new version with a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine built by Packard (same engine than the Spitfire). It was the P51-B, probably the best fighter of WWII.
Thank Phil :-)
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-Pierre-
Great pic. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. I also like the Spitfires and the Corsairs but to me anything with the name 'Mustang' has to be great.
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