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...Mustang (North American P-51). Widely publicized by the British as the most nearly perfect aircraft aerodynamically, the PSI is one of the world's fastest fighters, has recently acquired outstanding high-altitude performance. It is a long-range pursuit aircraft, nimble and heavily armed, and one of the best in the U.S.'s superior assortment of first-line fighters...
...valuable work on the various fighting fronts, but were relatively obsolete when we entered the war. . . . The committee regrets the earlier [Army] decisions which concentrated so large a portion of our production on a plane which, although usable, is at best a second choice. The North American P-51 [Mustang], characterized by both the British and the Army Air Forces as the most aerodynamically perfect pursuit plane in existence, was in production in 1941. . . . It would have been preferable to increase production of Mustangs, decrease production of Curtiss Warhawks." (P40 production at Curtiss-Wright's Buffalo plant was scheduled...
...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
...Vertical Approach. At Dunnellon Field, one of the bases in AAFSAT's 15,500-sq.-mi. domain, visiting newsmen gawked at three Mustang fighter-bombers circling almost soundlessly at 8,000 feet. One by one they peeled off, grew in size and sound as they hurtled earthward...
...enclosed booklet consisted of a handsome cover picturing four Allison-powered planes (Lightning, Airacobra, Tomahawk, Mustang), a noncommittal introduction and conclusion, and 40 blank pages...