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Don't forget this one.

#33 MIZAR The flying Pinto (fliegendes Auto) - YouTube

 

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Brewster F2A Buffalo i

 

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https://www.platinumfighters.com/inventory-2/1944-north-american-xp-82-

 

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That’s Amazing!!
John Moses Browning Salutes
The Warbirds!!
Can you imagine how much those MaDeuces & Ammo Weigh?
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That Pod too !!
That’s like an aerial buzzsaw !
Do you know if they saw combat or were experimental …

Thanks for the Way Cool Pics!

Mopar2ya!

John

 

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I Just Got Cutoff by a.........​

https://www.tumblr.com/video/stuff-that-irks-me/656119843926441984/500/

 

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A couple of little known facts about the Twin Mustang:

Fact #1:
You can count the number of parts that interchange between the P-51 and the P-82 on the fingers of one hand.

Fact #2:
As originally designed, the P-82 couldn't get airborne. Initially, the left engine was a V-1650-23 with an additional gear in the propeller reduction box to allow the left propeller to turn opposite to the right propeller, which was driven by the more conventional V-1650-25. In this arrangement both propellers would turn upward as they approached the center wing, which in theory would have allowed better single-engine control. This proved not to be the case when the aircraft refused to become airborne during its first flight attempt. After a month of work North American engineers finally discovered that rotating the propellers to meet in the center on their upward turn created sufficient drag to cancel out all lift from the center wing section, one quarter of the aircraft's total wing surface area. The engines and propellers were then exchanged, with their rotation meeting on the downward turn, and the problem was fully solved.

 

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Another thing about the Twin Mustang was its flying range. In 1947 Robert Thacker and John Ard flew a P–82 nonstop 5,051 miles from Hawaii to New York; the 14.5-hour flight is the longest unrefueled flight ever made by a piston-engine fighter. A record not likely to be broken since piston-engine fighters haven't been produced for a long time.

 

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I never knew about Fact #2........
And that P-82, Betty Jo is at The United States Air Force Museum. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/V...cle/196411/north-american-f-82b-twin-mustang/