Still the best combat plane ever built. It would be a good idea even now if the USAF bought a thousand of them and we got our allies to take another thousand.
Not a P51a but an A36A as shown by the four 20mm cannon. This was a version of the P51 made for the British under Lend-lease. The funds ran out and they were transferred to the USAAF. The USAAF did not have funding for any more fighters but did have funds for attack aircraft - hence the A36. The Allison engined Mustangs performed better at low altitude and the British used the early P51s in their Army Co-operation Squadrons.
NAA NA-91 Mustang IA (note the 4 x 20mm Hispano cannon) lend-leased to RAF from mid 1942 onwards. This came before the P-51A. The USAAC retained 55 or so from the 150 production run, fitted 4 x .50 mgs as P-51s or cameras as F-6As.
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Wow... is that an A model?
Glorious!
Still the best combat plane ever built. It would be a good idea even now if the USAF bought a thousand of them and we got our allies to take another thousand.
Not a P51a but an A36A as shown by the four 20mm cannon. This was a version of the P51 made for the British under Lend-lease. The funds ran out and they were transferred to the USAAF. The USAAF did not have funding for any more fighters but did have funds for attack aircraft - hence the A36. The Allison engined Mustangs performed better at low altitude and the British used the early P51s in their Army Co-operation Squadrons.
Forgot to mention that the A-36 was known as the Apache/Invader.
NAA NA-91 Mustang IA (note the 4 x 20mm Hispano cannon) lend-leased to RAF from mid 1942 onwards. This came before the P-51A. The USAAC retained 55 or so from the 150 production run, fitted 4 x .50 mgs as P-51s or cameras as F-6As.
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