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North American F-82 Twin Mustang Piper PA-48 Enforcer. The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a team headed by James H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation (NAA) in ...
P-51/Mustang Mk IA (NA-91) A North American Mustang Mk IA on a test flight from NAA's Inglewood facility in October 1942. The painted-over serial number appears to be 41-37416. North American XP-51. The first American order for 150 P-51s, designated NA-91 by North American, was placed by the US Army on 7 July 1940. [5]
43-25147 Princess Elizabeth – privately owned in Houston, Texas. [86] TP-51C. 42-103293 Betty Jane – based at Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts. [87][88] P-51D. 44-10755 Cottonmouth – privately owned in Bridgman, Michigan. [89] 44-11153 Kimberly Kaye – privately owned in Pleasanton, California.
The Minié rifle was an important infantry rifle of the mid-19th century. A version was adopted in 1849 following the invention of the Minié ball in 1847 by the French Army captain Claude-Étienne Minié of the Chasseurs d' Orléans and Henri-Gustave Delvigne. The bullet was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles and was an ...
The North American P-51 Mustang is one of the best-known escort fighters of World War II. The escort fighter was a concept for a fighter aircraft designed to escort bombers to and from their targets. An escort fighter needed range long enough to reach the target, loiter over it for the duration of the raid to defend the bombers, and return.
NA-73X NX19998, the first Mustang, as well as the first to crash on 20 November 1940. 20 November 1940 The North American NA-73X (Mustang prototype), NX19998, [1] crashed on its fifth flight after test pilot Paul Balfour neglected to go through the takeoff and flight test procedure with designer Edgar Schmued prior to a high-speed test run, claiming "one airplane was like another."
1966 (Peruvian Air Force) Variants. Republic XP-72. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by the American company Republic Aviation from 1941 through 1945. It was a successful high-altitude fighter, and it also served as the foremost American fighter-bomber in the ground-attack role.
The Packard V-1650 Merlin is a version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine, produced under license in the United States by the Packard Motor Car Company. [1] The engine was licensed to expand production of the Rolls-Royce Merlin for British use. The engine also filled a gap in the U.S. at a time when similarly powered American-made ...