N4521U
Colonel
Lotttttta buffing!
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
NL51JL
Seen in Hamilton Ontario Canada in June 1984, this aircraft was destoyed 5 months later in a double fatal crash in Michigan. I have not found anything to suggest it has been rebuilt, not even a data plate rebuild.
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Jeff
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
NL51KD
Hamilton Ontario Canada. Mid 1980s
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Jeff
drgondog
Major
Great image. That said this is one of the paint jobs that made me sad from a historical POV. Glenn Duncan. one of the great 8th FC comat leaders, and CO of 353rd FG, was shot down by flak in P-47D LH-X Dove of Peace on July 7, 1944 and fought with Dutch underground until April 14, 1945. He returned to fly LH-X Dove of Peace as Gp Exec to Rimmerman for next week until he took over the 353rd again four days before 8th AF ceased combat ops on April 25.
LH-X would have no invasion stripes at all. No P-51 (or P-47) would have top wing stripes after July 10, 1944. None would have fuselage invasion stripes after December 1944.
Glenn Duncan, Hub Zemke, Don Blakeslee are just a few examples of Colonels of great combat leadership that were not promoted again after WWII despite serving into the late sixties and seventies. Always made me question USAF promotion criteria.
BarnOwlLover
Staff Sergeant
Maybe not the best section to ask, but what are the purpose of the fins stuck to the sides of the vertical stabilizer on some P-51s? As well as the gurney flap I've seen on some P-51s in ANG service that was mounted behind the prop spinner? (P-51Ds sometimes had them, but I've never seen them on ANG P-51Hs).
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
Nice shots Jeff!
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
NL51MX
We have seen this aircraft before in this thread. ( white North American Maid c/s N30FF) She is seen here at Geneseo New York on 09July2016.
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Jeff
Good shot Jeff!
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
NL51RT
Now on display at the RAF museum at Hendon
Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang, s/n 9235 RCAF, c/n 122-40949, c/r N51RT
This Aerial Visuals page provides airframe history details of a specific airframe from the airframe database.
aerialvisuals.ca
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Jeff
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
NL51SB
Seen here at Oshkosh 1996.
P-51 Mustang Survivors - MustangsMustangs.com
P-51D Mustang Survivor: 44-73543, N151TP, Sweetie Face, Owner: Bavarian Barnstrormers 2 Inc, Based: Fort Myers FL - Status: Flying, Registry Past: N5458V, G-BLYW, N800DK, N51SB. World War II, North American P-51D-25NA Mustang survivor in civilian ownership
www.mustangsmustangs.com
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Jeff
Nice Jeff.
good stuff Jeff, always worth a few minutes to pop into this thread
Peter Gunn
Master Sergeant
Agreed, I just assumed some of the upper echelon panjandrum types didn't like guys who wouldn't put up with BS and so they sidelined them into relative backwater assignments.
Asshats.
Nice shots Jeff!
