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Flight Craft 19: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang (Paperback)
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Flight Craft 19: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang (Paperback)
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The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and
effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced
in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily-armed
fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in excess of
20,000ft. North America built the prototype in 117 days, and the
aircraft, designated NA-73X, flew on 26 October 1940. The first of
320 production Mustang Is for the RAF flew on 1 May 1941, powered
by a 1,100hp Allison V-1710-39 engine. RAF test pilots soon found
that with this powerplant the aircraft did not perform well at high
altitude, but that its low-level performance was excellent. It was
when the Mustang airframe was married to a Packard-built
Rolls-Royce Merlin engine that the aircraft's true excellence
became apparent. Possessing a greater combat radius than any other
Allied single-engine fighter, it became synonymous with the Allied
victory in the air. During the last eighteen months of the war in
Europe, escorting bomber formations, it hounded the Luftwaffe to
destruction in the very heart of Germany. In the Pacific, operating
from advance bases, it ranged over the Japanese Home Islands,
joining carrier-borne fighters such as the Grumman Hellcat to bring
the Allies massive air superiority. Yet the Mustang came about
almost by accident, a product of the Royal Air Force's urgent need
for new combat aircraft in the dark days of 1940, when Britain,
fighting for survival, turned to the United States for help in the
island nation's darkest hour.
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