The USAAF sought an aircraft that could fly longer distances while retaining the Mustang’s performance characteristics—so North American simply fused two P-51s together. The Second World War ...

At a max airspeed of 475 mph (764 kph), the Twin Mustang was 35 mph (56.32 kph) faster than her single-engine predecessor. However, the P-82/F-82 did not one-up the P-51D in armament, still ...

With one cockpit devoted to radar and the other to flying, the F-82 Twin Mustang — nicknamed “double trouble” — was born. What they didn’t know was that the Twin Mustang was destined to ...

In response, North American Aviation created the F-82 ... for the Twin Mustang project, and would get added to the collection of parts that would eventually go into the XP-82 restoration.