The Mustang we really need.

[kingcobradude]

My great-uncle flew one as ground attack he bombed the germans you know the same ones that attacked peral harbor anyway he bombed them just like the fishy said he dove from really high and blew the germans up and flew back up and shot down the bombers really high and flew back home he said they flew for long times sometimes and it was really hard holding in the icky stuff so they shortened the flights

you on dope? the japanese bombed pearl harbor, not the germans

[Larry]

o dear   now you've started something. Am I correct in assuming that these never seen combat?

You are not correct. Lt. Paul Hinds even recorded a few kills in it making him an ace.

+1 I like the idea
but I cannot find proof of that thing
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Just because you cant find any info on it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Dan has many, many books on WWII aircraft and I'm betting that's where most of his information came from.

[Steve]

you on dope? the japanese bombed pearl harbor, not the germans

Fish on!

[kingcobradude]

You are not correct. Lt. Paul Hinds even recorded a few kills in it making him an ace.


Just because you cant find any info on it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Dan has many, many books on WWII aircraft and I'm betting that's where most of his information came from.

ok well I searched the entire interned and got nothing

[Guppy35]

+1 I like the idea
but I cannot find proof of that thing
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Actual real live books are wondrous things.  Suggest getting a copy of Robert Greunhagen's` book on the Mustang.  It covers all the variants and production models.  William Hess did a nice book on the Mustang a while back too.  Roger Freeman's "Mustang at War" is nice.  There are some recent books on different aspects of WW2 Mustang action including one specifically on the VLR Mustangs.

You'd be surprised what you might learn from a good book

[MachFly]

ok well I searched the entire interned and got nothing

Try this

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=P-51+VLR

[Larry]

ok well I searched the entire interned and got nothing

Man I wish I could search the whole internet in a matter of hours. How about actually searching instead of just saying you did.

[Chalenge]

Ha! Cant stand your reputation taking hits Guppy? Bias proven.

[Bronk]

Scorpions wrong color they need to be red.

 

[uptown]

You are not correct. Lt. Paul Hinds even recorded a few kills in it making him an ace.

I have been had    

Sneaky SAPP guys 

[Guppy35]

Ha! Cant stand your reputation taking hits Guppy? Bias proven.

What are you talking about?  I'm supporting your position.  I've found proof that I was wrong and you've been right all along.

That proves my bias? 

As for my reputation.  If my being a parts distributing, 38G augering disaster as a cartoon pilot reputation is taking hits, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

[Delirium]

Ha! Cant stand your reputation taking hits Guppy? Bias proven.

His reputation and respect far exceeds your own.

Heck, aside from robbing a bank in a speedo, I'm not sure what he could do to bring him down to your level.

[gyrene81]

OMG...kingcobradude, keep trying and you may one day master the google:

***excerpt from the book - Very Long Range P-51 Mustang Units of the Pacific War (Aviation Elite Units) (Paperback)**

The 'Tokyo Club'

It was a simple task to become a member. All you had to do was strap yourself into a heavily loaded P-51 Mustang, take off from Iwo Jima (a postage-stamp sized volcanic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), fly 650 miles north over the sea - often through monsoon storms - in your single-engined aircraft to Japan, attack a heavily defended target in the vicinity of the enemy's capital city and then turn around and fly home while fretting over your shrinking fuel supply and perhaps battle damage as well. If your gas held out and you were not blown off-course on your return trip, you landed back at 'Iwo' after an eight-hour flight. Do it once and you earned membership in the club. Do it 15 times and you earned a trip home. But make one mistake or have one touch of bad luck, and you had a very good chance of ending up dead.
 
Three Mustang-equipped Very Long Range fighter groups of the USAAF's Seventh Fighter Command - the 15th, 21st and 506th FGs - based on Iwo Jima

But I haven't found any evidence that those planes had hispano cannons in them...whatever a P-51D-20 was...a lot of info and pics here:

http://www.506thfightergroup.org/506thsquadrons.asp#pilots

[caldera]

You are not correct. Lt. Paul Hinds even recorded a few kills in it making him an ace.

Did the Japanese even have planes that could reach 35K?

[gyrene81]

Did the Japanese even have planes that could reach 35K?

Supposedly the N1K2-J had a service ceiling of 35,000 ft.
The Ki-43 I think could get to 36,000 ft.