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    P-51 MUSTANG: Flight Characteristics. WW2 Training Film And Interviews

    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...
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    Another 'Gem' from Greg - just released.

    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...
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    Confused, Misread, or Just Plain Stupid

    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...
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    eBay: Bell P-39 Airacobra

    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...
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    Why were most early WW2 fighters designed with limited rear visibility?

    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...
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    **** DONE: GB-57 1/48 P-51K / Mk.IV Mustang - WW2 Foreign Service

    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...
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    P-51H and F-82 HQ photos?

    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...
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    P-51H and F-82 HQ photos?

    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...
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    P-51D Loses Engine on Takeoff

    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!
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    GB-57 1/48 Luftwaffe P-51B Mustang - WW2 Foreign Service

    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...
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    Has ANYONE seen a copy of THIS A-36 manual/catalog?

    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...
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    Has ANYONE seen a copy of THIS A-36 manual/catalog?

    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...
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    They Used Rocket Tubes On the A-36A

    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...
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    Why Did The RAF Use .303 Caliber Machine Guns in WW2? The Surprising Answer

    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...
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