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Slashing air combat over savagely defended aircraft plants deep in Germany made a spectacular formal debut last week for the newest and hottest U.S. Army fighter: the P-51B Mustang. Airmen wagged their heads and wondered whether, at long last, this was it-the single-seater that had everything...
...Everything," for a fighter plane, covers a lot of ground. But on its battle performance the P-51B was clearly fast, rugged and maneuverable enough to tackle any foe at any altitude. Top speed is well over 400 m.p.h., ceiling above 40,000 ft. The Mustang packs plenty of armament (one earlier version carried four 20-mm. cannon), and within a limited radius can lug two 500-lb. bombs against ground targets...
...youth, a small backlog of trained personnel. And in spite of everything, nine types of combat plane were already in production: the Flying Fortress (B-17), Liberator (B-24), Mitchell (B-25), Marauder (B-26), Lightning (P-38), Airacobra (P-39), Warhawk (P-40), Thunderbolt (P-47) and Mustang...
...ways to make those jobs comfortable, upright operations instead of nerve-racking, crawling-on-the-back business. His output from three big North American-run plants (Inglewood, Calif., Dallas and Kansas City) includes the famed Tokyo-raiding 6-25, the Army's standard advanced trainer, and a new Mustang, soon to be battle-tested, that looks like the best high altitude Army Air Forces fighter...
Invader (North American A-36). Dive-bombing version of the Mustang, recently discontinued in the Army Air Forces concentration on fighter-bombing...