eBay: North American P-51 Mustang

[jimh]

Poor thing gets gas then...

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[Snautzer01]

Org. Nose Art Photo: P-51 Fighter Plane (#44-13412; Shot Down 1945) ~ (#1)!!! | eBay

P-51D-5-NA

Baugher: 13412 (4th FG, 336th FS) hit by wingman's gunfire and bellied in 8 mi NE of Nordhausen, Germany Aug 24, 1944. Pilot John Godfrey POW. MACR 7941. Plane was not named "Reggie's Reply" and it was not his personal aircraft.

 

[Snautzer01]

Org. Nose Art Photo: P-51 Fighter Plane "MUDDY" (With Ten Vicvtory Kills)!!! | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

FOTO FLUGZEUG P-51D MUSTANG | eBay

P-51C-10-NT 44-10889 Lend Lease to France

 

[fubar57]

Never knew the French flew P-51s

 

[Crimea_River]

Seems to me the French had at least one of EVERYTHING.

 

[Peter Gunn]

Seems to me the French had at least one of EVERYTHING.

Oui Oui Baguette

Sorry, family joke with my daughters.

 

[Navalwarrior]

It was actually conceived as a means of "flash acceleration" in response to the Me262 threat.

There were two test aircraft, both were P-51D-25 airframes (44-73099 44-74050) and the rocket was an acid-aniline rocket motor that was fed by Red fuming nitric acid, carried in a special tank under the port wing and an aniline-alcohol mixture, carried in a tank under the starboard wing.

The fuel mixture was extremely volitile and could prove to be dangerous in a ground error and/or combat, plus the tests did not produce satisfactory results, so it never developed any further.

Resp:
The ME 262 reasoning makes sense. I was thinking it may have been to enhance launching from a carrier.

 

[GrauGeist]

Resp:
The ME 262 reasoning makes sense. I was thinking it may have been to enhance launching from a carrier.

While that idea has merit, the P-51's rocket exhaust would have destroyed the carrier's hardwood deck.

 

[Navalwarrior]

While that idea has merit, the P-51's rocket exhaust would have destroyed the carrier's hardwood deck.

Resp:
Roger. It was just my 1st thought. The extra boost for enemy jets makes far better sense.

 

[Navalwarrior]

FOTO FLUGZEUG P-51D MUSTANG | eBay

P-51C-10-NT 44-10889 Lend Lease to France


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Resp:
Post war? Or pre May 1945? Could be a wartime photo recon? Is that a camera just behind and low of the roundel?

 

[Airframes]

Armee de L'Air, probably immediate post war, and yes, it's a recce bird.

 

[Wurger]

yep... the P-51C-10-NT ( another source : F-6C-10-NT ) delivered to G.R II/33 in July 1944. The appearance of her at the beginning of the 1945, Luxeuil airbase.

 

[Navalwarrior]

yep... the P-51C-10-NT ( another source : F-6C-10-NT ) delivered to G.R II/33 in July 1944. The appearance of her at the beginning of the 1945, Luxeuil airbase.

Resp:
What made me look closer, was that I knew that the French flew a few F-5 Lightnings. There was a story of a missing Lightning flown by a famous (to the French) Frenchman who never returned from a photo recon mission. I believe his plane was found 30 or so years later in the Med, not too far off shore.

 

[fubar57]

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://www.biography.com/news/the-little-prince-antoine-de-saint-exupery-facts

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Snautzer01]

Original Large WWII Photo P-51 Fighter Aircraft Plane Crashed KIA w/ Story | eBay

 

[Navalwarrior]

Original Large WWII Photo P-51 Fighter Aircraft Plane Crashed KIA w/ Story | eBay
Resp:
Those are P-47s in background. So I suspect those are 165 gallon drop tanks on the P-51D in the photo, that Kenney used as wing tanks on his 5th AF P-47s. Note the larger, non-standard wing pylons on the P-51.

 

[Snautzer01]

#619 WWII Color Photo ~ P-51 Nose Art ~ BARBARA M. 4th ~ | eBay