This collection of false information about the Mustang, has so many errors in it, that I do not know where to begin.
In no particular order, there are at least two in the video where there's a video of a man, climbing into an aircraft and shortly there after an aircraft looking like that one...
Gee, Butthurt ... is there a way to join your "fan club."?
I'm sure that there's only a tiny chance that ANYONE out there (alive or dead) has "the handle" on the ACTUAL story that should be told to replace Greg's dime-store novel presentation on how we can thank Anton Fokker for the Mustang...
Aaron,
Has no one "jumped-in" to answer this? I see that it's 2 days old so here goes - I'll try to keep it short and to the point.
In mid-1948, after the US Air Force, formerly the US Army Air Forces, had been a separate branch of the US military services (as of September, 1947), they (by...
Does ANYone have even an educated guess as to "what's under the 'cover'/'shell' on this P-39?
I see the P-63 and other P-39s in the background ... could this be an experimental smoke-generator (since its outlet is behind the exhaust stacks, and while flying, the exhaust "jets" in front of that...
No offense, but the Mustang shown above would've been built in either late 1942 or in 1943 ... it's a P-51B Merlin Mustang, and was built as late as mid-1943.
The only "Mustang family" aircraft (it wasn't even NAMED anything) in 1940 was the NA-73x more-or-less "Mustang Prototype."
This is my...
Whatever publication or book these two photos came from - the captions are "off" by a letter on the name of this model of Mustang.
The UK/Commonwealth version of what the USAAF designated "P-51K," was named "Mustang Mk IVa" to distinguish it from the P-51D Mustang that they had named "Mustang...
Boeing is the "keeper of all-things-NAA" these days and they're very, shall we say, "money-oriented" when it comes to posting their photos and stuff online, or in books or magazine articles. This is a fairly new "thing." Folks "out there" say that a "change in management" at Boeing in the last...
Dontcha just love how they have the black P/F-82B liveried like it was an F-82G, and the sign says that too. Maybe it says somewhere (and I failed to see it) that this is a P-82B that is painted to resemble an F-82G, or words to that effect).
Regardless, it was great for me to be able to see...
The artist for the P-51D flown by Mr Hoover has one issue with his/her rendition of a Mustang.
Who sees the issue?
No prizes, but folks will see the first person with the correct answer as a rock-star!
What can you do to fix the prop blades ... I'm not a modeler, but I know that NO real Mustang ever had props with base of the cuff/blade soooo far from the spinner, and the profile of the cuffs is wrong ... the chord of the cuffs near to the spinner a not nearly as wide as seen on the ones with...
Here's the thing: "Invader" was a nickname/colloquial name for the A-36A Mustang.
It originated in the 12th Air Force in the MTO, probably in 1943 (after the 500 A-36As ended production). A pilot in the 86th FBG, whose name I could dig out of a book, but I've forgotten it, after pilots and...
Those of you who wonder if we will EVER stop telling folks that the North American Aviation dive-bomber, the A-36A, was always and forEVER officially named "Mustang"? - I ask this question (forgive me if this is a "repeat")?
Has anyone ever seen the parts catalog, the cover of which is...
Since the RAF in the MTO used six A-36As, and removed the nose guns, had this been one of them in this photo, from the same perspective, two other unique features of the A-36A stand out. Since you cannot see the serial number, nor the dive brakes, the two features particular to the A-36A...
The British used .30 Cal US (".30-06") BMGs in the Mustang Mk I (NA-73 and NA-83). There's no "easy" way for a .30 Cal BMG to "handle" that rimmed .303 British ammo. Secondly, because of the rimmed .303 case, a belt of ammo necessarily held fewer rounds of .303 per length of belt, than if the...