(WARBIRD TECH 05) North American P-51 Mustang.pdf

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VOLUME 5

NORTH AMERICAN

. By FREDERICK A. JOHNSEN

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE NORTH AMERICAN P-51 MUSTANG

FOREWORD •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 4

By ROBERT A."BoB" HOOVER

PREFACE •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5

CREATIVE PEOPLE MADE IT POSSIBLE

CHAPTER 1: TEAMWORK •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 6

WHEN ENGINEERING CREATED ART

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CHAPTER 2: MUSTANGS IN SERVICE •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38

WAR HORSES AROUND THE WORLD

SPECIAL FULL COLOR SECTION: HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR •••••••••••••• 6S

THE MUSTANG IN COLOR

CHAPTER 3: HOT AND COLD WARS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 69

LONGEVITY PROVES MUSTANG'S STATUS AS A CLASSIC

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CHAPTER 4: 2 TIMES 51 EQUALS 82 ..................•.•.............. 84

THE TWIN MUSTANG

CHAPTER 5: THE COLOR OF VICTORY ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 90

MUSTANG PAINT AND MARKINGS

SIGNIFICANT DATES ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 100

KEY DATES IN THE HISTORY OF THE P-S 1 MUSTANG

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FOREWORD

I t has been my pleasure to fly

the North American P-S 1 Mus-

tang in air shows for more than

three decades.

book, about the Mustang aircraft

that I have grown to know so well

over much of that same span of

years.

the Mustang in the urgency of

wartime, as well as the thousands

of pilots who honed their skills in

the P-S1 under fire, backed up by

maintenance people who kept the

Mustangs flying. So please sit back

and enjoy this book as a tribute to

the Mustang airplane, and the peo-

ple who gave it life and capitalized

on its superior abilities.

During that time, I have come to

know the Mustang inside and out.

And that inside look is what makes

this WarbirdTech volume about the

P-S1 Mustang uniquely interesting

and useful. Excerpted drawings

from original technical manuals,

interpretive photo captions, and

text backed up by official docu-

mentation give the reader more

than just another picture book

about the magnificent Mustang.

My association with North Ameri-

can Aviation afforded a wonderful

opportunitywhen company presi-

dent Lee Atwood bought a slick

refurbished surplus P-S1 from Cav-

alier Aircraft in Florida for me to fly

at air shows in the early 1960s. Of

all the different North American air-

craft I have flown in demonstra-

tions, it gives me great satisfaction

to be so closely associated with the

sleek, powerful, and capable P-S1.

ROBERT A."BoB" HOOVER

1996

I've known author Fred Johnsen

since he was a college student,

photographing and writing about

air shows in the Pacific Northwest

in the 1960s and 1970s. Therefore it

is with pleasure that I introduce his

Even as I have coaxed demand-

ing maneuvers from my Mustang at

air shows for years, those perfor-

mances stand as a testimonial to

the innovators at North American

Aviation who designed and built

Ever-dapper, Bob Hoover watched the Abbotsford International Air Show from the wing of his trademark P-S7 in

the mid-7 970s. (Frederick A.Johnsen)

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