Born from the legendary P-51 Mustang, the North American F-82 Twin Mustang was a long-range escort fighter created by joining ...

Summary: The P-82/F-82 Twin Mustang, a unique fighter aircraft born out of North American Aviation’s innovation, showcased a twin-fuselage design with two pilots. Emerging after World War II, it ...

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 t… ...

The P-51D is the final version of the North American Aviation Mustang airplane. Originally, it had the Packard engine pulling it to top speeds of 440 mph (708 kph) and for a range of 1,650 miles ...

The British were the ones that nicknamed their new fighter the Mustang – a name soon adopted by the Americans as well. Interestingly enough, the P-51 became a universal success only after some ...

Production of the P-51 Mustang began in 1940 at the request of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) to replace its outdated, and out-gunned, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. The earliest P-51s were powered by ...

At some point during the tail end of World War II, a creative engineer at North American Aviation looked at the P-51 Mustang and wrote a memo to his boss stating that if one Mustang was amazing ...

While 500 of the P-82s were ordered, North American only made about 250. The P-82 Twin Mustang was the last American piston-engine and propeller-driven fighter purchased by the Air Force.

A P-51 Mustang flies alongside an F-16 at the National Cherry Festival Air Show 2022 in Traverse City, Michigan. Some consider the F-16 to be the Mustang's modern equivalent.

NASM The P-51 was the darling of the Army Air Forces. Aerodynamically agile and acrobatic, the Mustang was fast and furious in its effectiveness in downing enemy aircraft.

Had the Russian version of the P-51 appeared five years earlier, ‘I doubt if anyone would ever have heard of the Mustang.’ There’s something special about about flying your airplane into an ...