The prototype NA-73X airframe was designed and ... American had no previous experience with fighter design. While the P-51 Mustang would go down in history as arguably the best operational piston ...

On October 26, 1940, the North American NA-73X - the first prototype of what would become the iconic P-51 Mustang - took to ...

Then what you need is something vintage, like a World War II-era P-51 Mustang. Fortunately, the most common version of the front-line fighter is up for auction in Torrance, CA. Running as part of ...

Men of the 385th Fighter Squadron, 364th Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, load ammunition belts in the wing of a North American P-51 Mustang in Honington, England, in1944. (National Archives ...

Given the incredible success of the P-51 Mustang during the Second World War ... which is actually a prototype XP-82 variant, together from junkyard finds. Even then, many of the parts necessary ...