2 - Mustang
Issue 2 - P-51 Mustang: Contents
29 January 2010
Marinell makes it home... D-Day – the 339th’s story... The RAF’s free-roaming fighter... Mrs. Virginia and the Air Commandos... The King’s Cliffe ‘Loco Busters’... Mustang evolution... Mustangs over Israel... Janie the former Kiwi... ‘The Duxford Eagles’... ‘Red Tail’ resurrection... The Tuskegee Airmen... NA-73X – Birth of a legendary fighter... Return to combat... Their final flight...
Issue 2 - P-51 Mustang: Editors Introduction
28 January 2010.
I’d like to begin this issue of Aviation Classics by saying thank-you to the hundreds of people who came along to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitors Centre on 28 October 2009 to support our launch.
Issue 2 - P-51 Mustang: Return to combat
27 January 2010.
A special preview feature from Aviation Classics - The P-51 Mustang - When the Korean War began in June 1950, many retired F-51 Mustangs were rapidly brought back up to combat readiness to be used for ground attack missions...
Issue 2 - P-51 Mustang: Video
26 January 2010.
Take off and landing footage from the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang.
Current Issue: Lockheed P-38 Lightning
On January 27, 1939, Lockheed test pilot Ben Kelsey took the prototype XP-38 Lightning into the air for the first time. The big, twin-engined, twin-boomed fighter was to become one of the most easily identifiable fighters of the Second World War, and was to be the only US fighter aircraft to remain in production throughout the conflict. Its unusual design had a number of advantages. The guns, being grouped close together in the nose, gave the P-38 a tremendous concentration of firepower. The tricycle undercarriage made ground handling simple when compared with the tailwheel designs common to the period. The P-38 was used across the world, undertaking long range fighter escort, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance missions in Europe as well as across the Pacific and Far East.
This issue of Aviation Classics tells the whole story of this ground breaking aircraft, as well as the people behind the development and operational success of this beautiful machine.
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• Next issue on sale: 30th March 2012
