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P-51D Mustang Photo Gallery Contact Sheet | ||
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Photo Number: | N/A | |
Photo Date: | N/A | |
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Formats: | Low Resolution Image Contact Sheet (28 KBytes) Medium Resolution Image Contact Sheet (29 KBytes) High Resolution Image Contact Sheet (28 KBytes) |
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Photo Description: |
These are the image contact sheets for each image resolution of the NASA Dryden P-51D Mustang Photo Gallery. | |
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Project Description: |
A North American P-51D Mustang (the P meaning pursuit), redesignated as an F-51 Mustang (with the F standing for fighter), was transferred to the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (HSFRS), Edwards, California, from the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia, in 1950. This aircraft had been used in wing-flow research at Langley prior to its transfer. The NACA was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a predecessor of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The HSFRS was a predecessor of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, and Langley Aeronautical Laboratory became NASA's Langley Research Center. The P-51D was the first aircraft to employ the NACA laminar-flow airfoil design and could dive to a speed of roughly Mach 0.8. As an F-51 Fighter, instead of a P-51D pursuit aircraft, the aircraft was used as a proficiency aircraft at HSFRS. Records show that the aircraft was also used as a chase and support aircraft 395 times. Neil Armstrong was among the pilots using it to chase some of the X-planes (that is, provide safety support). The P-51D was retired in 1959 as the result of a taxiing mishap. |
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NASA Photo by: | N/A | |
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Keywords: | P-51D Mustang; F-51 Mustang; North American Aircraft Company; NACA; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Langley Aeronautical Laboratory; Langley Research Center; NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station; Dryden Fight Research Center. |
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