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The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in 1940 by a team headed by James H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission .
Flight tests showed ground handling was good, and the Mustang could take off and land in a field length of 1,000 ft (300 m); the maximum speed was 18 mph (29 km/h) lower, although it was thought that fairings over the retracted skis would compensate.
First flight: 29 April 1945: Retired: 1959 ... The CAC Mustang is an Australian variant of the North American P-51 Mustang. ... Maximum speed: 636 km/h (395 mph, 380 kn)
[1] [2] The Mustang-style under-fuselage air scoop is a dummy that provides a baggage compartment. [1] The design blends features of various P-51 models. The fuselage closely resembles the P-51D, but has features from the light weight P-51G model. The wing uses the P-51H model wing and has been shortened to 32 feet.
Destroyed during flight accident The Red Baron was a North American P-51D Mustang NX7715C, original serial number 44-84961. It raced from 1966 to 1973 under the names Miss R.J. and Roto-Finish Special , winning Unlimited Gold in 1972.
Aircraft are chosen for all sorts of reasons when it comes to military applications. Not every mission flown needs a state-of-the-art fighter jet bristling with missiles and ordnance.
The ScaleWings SW51 Mustang, formerly marketed as the FK-Lightplanes FK51 Mustang, is an Austrian ultralight, light-sport aircraft and homebuilt aircraft that was designed by ScaleWings of Strasswalchen, Austria and was initially produced by FK-Lightplanes of Krosno, Poland, who introduced it publicly at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2013 ...
On September 2, 2017, Steve Hinton Jr, in the modified North American P-51 Mustang Voodoo set the new record of 531.53 mph (855.41 km/h) in the C-1e class (the same weight class Rare Bear would fall into). This record is also the fastest for any propeller driven piston aircraft.