North American F-82B Twin Mustang

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I love this bird. I have three of the scariest 1/48 hobby craft kits of it and am trying to bide my time till Modelvista gets theirs out. Unfortunately holding my breath hasn't helped. I just bought, at relative great expense, after market radar pods and exhausts for the two "E's" to do my best to make G or at least F models. Were the radar pods removable? Did they fly the night fighters without the pods?

 
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Baugher: North American XP-82 Twin Mustang 44-83887. Accepted by the USAAF Sep 11, 1945. Returned to North American Aviation for testing.
Delivered to USAAF Mar 18, 1946 for performance tests Assigned to NACA Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH Oct 1947. Code PQ-887, also FQ-887. Used for high altitude test work. Later used to test Marquardt ram jet engines. On 25 February 1950 the aircraft received substantial damage as it slid off an icy runway. Sold to Walter Soplata after accident mid-1950. Now with the Walter Soplata collection, Newbury, OH. Reported in June 2008 issue of "Aircraft Illustrated" to be under restoration to fly at Kissimmee, FL.



 
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44-65168 (MSN 123-43754) assigned to NACA Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH Sep 1950 to 1957. Code EFQ-168. Used as a test bed for ramjet engines
Suffered wing damage in June 1957. The plane (named "Betty Joe") set a record by flying 5000 miles from Hawaii nonstop on Feb 27, 1947, covering 5051 miles in 14 hrs 33 min at an average speed of 334 mph. Named Betty Jo after the wife of one of the pilots, but painted Betty Joe but later corrected. Preserved and on display at National Museum of the United States Air Force.

PQ-168 44-65168 Betty Jo



 
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