A P-51 Mustang ... wrote in 1942. The Mustang, however, would soon find an adopted parent in Hitchcock. The former fighter pilot became relentless in his quest to adapt the aircraft into the ...

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

There are few pilots who do not, at some point, fantasize about flying a P-51 Mustang. Of course, these rare, expensive, and unforgiving aircraft simply are not available to most people.

At the 2002 Nellis Air Show near Las Vegas, a Sabre heads up an A team in a USAF Heritage Flight: (from left) P-51 Mustang ... for aspiring F-86 pilots because both aircraft share a “systems ...