North American Aviation Mustang P-51 fighter plane
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Description
View of a North American Aviation P-51 Mustang fighter plane. Label on back: "Packard News Service. Ready to reach for still higher altitudes is this new North American P-51 Mustang. Its Packard-built Rolls-Royce engine with two-speed, two-stage supercharger, greatly increases the fighting range of this lightning-like plane. Military experts describe it as the aircraft destined to be the world's outstanding fighter plane in 1945." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft in action."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032515
- Subject:
- Mustang (Fighter plane)
- North American Aviation
- Rolls-Royce engines
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Aircraft in action, 85:10
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.