P-51 YouTube Video (P-51B-10-NA)

[Buckaroo]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp9bje8y6XE

from this offsite forum, not Aces High:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=86335

A bit of a discussion of exactly which model P-51 this is to both forums.

[Guppy35]

It's a new build TP51C.  No actual history so to try and ID it as a specific wartime P51B/C version is pointless.  The guy claiming if it was a C it would have a bubble canopy is just silly.

[drgondog]

Zero P-51s were shipped with a Malcolm Hood. All that received a 'hood (B and C) were modified in the theatre service centers and maybe a few by individual Firgther Group Service group at the base level.

When introduced into the 354th, 357th, 355th and 4th the mods went to senior leaders that wanted them - first - and went first on the P-51B-1 and -5 before the first C's.

[SgtPappy]

Speaking of P-51 mods, I was reading up in "The Great Book of WWII Airplanes" with the P-51 section by Robert Grinsell stating that the last block of P-51B-15 aircraft (ser. no.'s 43-24752 to 43-24901) had the modification to carry 6x .50 cal. guns. I have never once seen a photo of a P-51B with 6x .50's.

Also, I've seen a lot of art and models of P-51B's and C's that have the larger P-51D-style wing root kinks. Is it indeed true that any late P-51B/C/Mustang III's had 6x .50's or P-51D-style wing root kinks?