If you dream of zooming over the English Channel looking for a fight with the Luftwaffe, then you're going to need a plane ... like a World War II-era P-51 Mustang. Fortunately, the most common ...

What is also notable is that the aircraft he may have described – the North American P-51 Mustang – was actually conceived in haste a mere five years earlier. The P-51 was designed ...

Its bubble canopy, introduced in the D-model, provided pilots ... destroying nearly 5,000 enemy aircraft in the air—and thousands more on the ground. The P-51 Mustang’s influence extended ...

During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European Theater. The North American P-51 Mustang may well be the most iconic U ...