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‘Simplicate and Add Lightness!’ — Designing the F-45 Mustang II
the WWII P-51D Mustang, but which is sadly lacking on the F-35 strike fighter. Rather than being built around the terribly risky idea of achieving air dominance through blasting the battlespace ...
The National Interest27d
P-51 Mustang: The Most Iconic American Fighter In History?
During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European Theater. The North American P-51 Mustang may well be the most iconic U ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
(Library of Congress) Upon America’s entry into the Second World War, the 41-year-old volunteered his services as a fighter pilot ... to the National World War II Museum. Carnage on Oct. 8 ...
Hackaday6y
Rebuilding An Extremely Rare Twin Mustang Fighter
Towards the end of the Second World War, as the United States considered their options for a possible invasion of Japan, there was demand for a new fighter ... for the Twin Mustang project ...