By Brad Howard Posted on Jul 9, 2018 3:49 PM EDT 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 ...

As World War II drew to a close, Mustang pilots shot down 4,950 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter. The P-51 ...

T he North American P-51 Mustang is surely one of the most recognizable aircraft of World War II, thanks in large measure to ...

The P-51 Mustang: How a Rapidly Developed Fighter Became a WWII Legend Shortly after surrendering to U.S. forces at the end of the Second World War in 1945, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had ...

On top of their greatly reduced cost, smaller fighters are better in a dogfight. And because they ... of course, the WWII P-51D Mustang, but which is sadly lacking on the F-35 strike fighter.

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It is hard to comprehend just how quick a World War II fighter plane is until it roars ... it is outmatched by another Tyabb resident: a P-51 Mustang, a version of the thoroughbred fighter ...

The Russian Su-47, with its unique forward-swept wings, stands out as one of the most recognizable aircraft in the world.

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George Lucas is known to have studied 20 to 25 hours of footage from World War II dogfights while doing research for the film. Ian D'Costa of Tactical Air Network notes that Lucas became ...

Nearly a thousand African-American pilots who served in World War II learned to ... Deadly dogfights ensued, Stewart squeezing off burst after burst from his P-51 Mustang’s six ...

November marked the 72nd anniversary of the first dogfight between jet-powered fighter ... the Soviets claimed to have shot down an American F-51 Mustang and an F-80C fighter jet, but Air Force ...