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Aviation History
1944
1944 - 0027.PDF
JANUARY 6TH, 1944 ing Attitudes North American Mustang (P.51), Single-seater. ORIGINALLY powered by a 1,150 h.p. Allison engine and armed with four 0.5m. and four o.3o3in. machine guns, the latest type is fitted with a Packard-built 1,520 h.p. two- stage Merlin and is armed with four 20 mm. cannon. In the U.S.A.A.F. the. two types are designated P-51 and P-51B respectively. The former, which may be said to have served its apprenticeship with the Army Co-operation Command of theR.A.F., has done excellent work on high-speed reconnais sance and low-level attacks across the Channel. The latest Mustang, however, by virtue of its two-stage supercharger, can perform on comparable terms with the best of single-seater fighters. Top speed of the P-51B is about 400 m.p.h. Points for recognition include long slim nose, straight tapered wings and tailplane with square tips, angular fin and iudder, and radiator under centre of fuselage. Dimensions: Span 37ft., length 32ft. 2^in., height 8ft. 8in., wing area 235-75 sq. ft. MOSQUITO NOTABLE for its unique wooden airframe, the D.rt. Mosquito is powered by a pair of 1,280 h.p. Rolls-Royce Merlin XXI engines (the Merlins of the Canadian model are Packard-built), but beyond the fact that its top speed is in excess of 400 m.p.h., no performance figures have yet been released. The version illustrated here is the fighter which has an armament of four 20 mm. cannon and four 0.303m. Brown ing machine guns fixed in the nose. Fighter-bomber and bomber versions stow their bomb-loads internally, and all models may be fitted with long-range drop-tanks outboard of the nacelles beneath the wings. Points for recognition include large underslung nacelles extending behind trailing edge, sharply tapered wings with small round tips and advanced centre-section leading edge housing radiators,* elliptical tailplane and tall single fin and rudder. Dimensions: Span 54ft. 2in., length 41ft. 2in., height 17ft. 3m., wing area 420 sq. ft. De Havilland Mosquito, Two-seater.
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