Given the incredible success of the P-51 Mustang during the Second World War, it’s perhaps no surprise that the United States entertained the idea of combining two of the iconic fighters on the ...

Three days later, McCubbin was flying a P-51D Mustang when he had his most memorable aerial encounter with a host of Nazi Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft, as described in his combat report ...

Had the Russian version of the P-51 appeared five years earlier, 'I doubt if anyone would ever have heard of the Mustang.' ...

Summary and Key Points: The North American P-51 Mustang, adopted by the U.S. Army ... but the P-51 went from a “clean-sheet” design to a flying prototype in just 102 days.

By Brad Howard Posted on Jul 9, 2018 At some point during the tail end of World War II, a creative engineer at North American Aviation looked at the P-51 ... to flying, the F-82 Twin Mustang ...