Название: North American P-51 Mustang
Автор: Malcom V.Lowe
Издательство: Crowood Press
Серия: Crowood Aviation Series
ISBN: 978 1861268303
Год издания: 2009
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 280
Формат: PDF
Размер: 137,3 MB

The P-51 Mustang is one of the greatest warplanes of all time. Developed as a private venture, it was seized upon by the British as the answer to their shortage of fighter aircraft in the early months of World War Two. Early Allison-engined Mustangs lacked performance at high altitude, but the great promise of the airframe was clear, and when fitted with the Rolls-Royce Merlin the Mustang became one of the best pistoned-engined fighters ever built. Not only was its performance on a par with the best British and German fighters of the era, but it was the first single-engined fighter with range sufficient to accompany bombers from Great Britain to Berlin and back.