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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #120 on: June 02, 2012, 01:25:43 PM »
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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #121 on: June 02, 2012, 01:58:42 PM »
What are you reiterating?

 Post #62 or #67 that claimed  "those last two pictures you posted were A36's"  There not ...I hadn't realized that the post got deleted. I will change the post.

I was looking through another book and found these captions for this plane.

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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #122 on: June 02, 2012, 04:22:19 PM »
23rd FG P-51A getting some maintenance



"These well-worn P-51As were the first Mustangs to arrive in China, where they were assigned to the 76th FS 23FG following service with the 311th FBG in India. Their first mission was an uneventful bomber escort to Hankow from Suichuan flown on 23 November 1943"


And this dirty Bird
"Tom Raleigh was a 'tech rep' from the Allison Division of General Motors, and he is seen here posing with Capt John Stewart's P-51A '122' (143-6303) in early 1944 at Suichuan. Named for Stewart's wife, Lynn, the aeroplane displays its pilot's full score of nine victory flags. It has also been fitted with a direction finding loop on the fuselage spine."

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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #123 on: June 04, 2012, 11:33:39 AM »


There is no "Mustang A"!

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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #124 on: June 04, 2012, 11:43:25 AM »
Awspme thx for reviving this I had nothing to read this morning.
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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #125 on: June 04, 2012, 10:01:06 PM »
So the P-51A is a 4 gun allison powered P-51 before a merlin was stuck in it and called a P-51B\C?

All of these pilots, organisations and owners beleive they are flying allison powered P-51A's. Guess you need to contact all of them and correct their missconception.

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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #126 on: June 05, 2012, 01:06:20 PM »
Im gonna get flamed all to pieces about this,

So what. He wants the 51 with 4 20's who gives a flyin f I will put my entire life savings on this,
we get a 51 with 4x20mms he'll fly it half the community is going to fly it atleast once.
So I say why even bother flacking the shet out of him over a wish when you got an Me 410 otw with a 50MM.
I mean its really like this The 51A did not have the merlin engine it will have 4 20's in the wings which btw is pretty heavy its not gonna really out perfrom anything we really already have, but if he wants let him have it; I like the idea of a 51A with 4 20's though dont expect me fly it all the time, he can have it to challenge himself as well as any other pony dweebs.
The pony is a great bird but the less powerful engine and heavier gun package makes it a little more of a boat than the other pony's.

But I will amend to my original statement who cares why he wants it, it's a plane that I can promise you is going to get flown eventually yes, it will be a hangar queen because in MA most of the planes flown are usually performance planes and it just doesn't fit that bill for a big load of MA use however as far as Mid war and some MA use goes its an alright wish, we could really put this time into something of more importance to the game and we just might be saving HTC quite a bit of trouble for nothing.


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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #129 on: June 19, 2012, 10:26:12 PM »
Thank you Lyric. Its been killing me that the historical gurus havent quite put together yet that the P51/Mustang IA was the cannon bird and that the P-51A never had cannons. The Mustang is the easiest bird to find data on and this simplest of facts escaped nearly everyone in this thread.

Im all for the P-51/Mustang IA being added. Its not about history. Its about what would be good for this game. I think must of the "experts" that think they know whats good or bad for AH havent got a clue!

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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #130 on: June 19, 2012, 10:49:51 PM »
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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #131 on: June 20, 2012, 06:37:37 AM »
Has any WWII fighter pilot claimed a guns kill with the cannons?

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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #132 on: June 20, 2012, 08:45:03 AM »
Thank you Lyric. Its been killing me that the historical gurus havent quite put together yet that the P51/Mustang IA was the cannon bird and that the P-51A never had cannons. The Mustang is the easiest bird to find data on and this simplest of facts escaped nearly everyone in this thread.

Im all for the P-51/Mustang IA being added. Its not about history. Its about what would be good for this game. I think must of the "experts" that think they know whats good or bad for AH havent got a clue!

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Meh, add em both,  a Mustang that performs better than a spit 5  below  15k with  4 20's  why not.






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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #133 on: June 20, 2012, 11:15:47 AM »
Has any WWII fighter pilot claimed a guns kill with the cannons?
Almost certainly, but I don't see how that is relevant.  The debate isn't about whether it saw combat, but whether the small number used historically justifies the, mostly negative, impact it would have in AH.
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Re: EARLY P-51 MUSTANG VARIANT
« Reply #134 on: June 20, 2012, 11:19:18 AM »
No kill claims=get in line behind planes that did have them.