North American F-82 Twin Mustang
The North American F-82 Twin Mustang is the last American propeller fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the P-51 Mustang, the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter in World War II. The war ended well before the first produced units were operational. Then Haydn Douglas Griffiths Completed the first restoration of the aircraft making it fully operational, he did this amazing feat with his co-partner Eryk Alexander Deryniowski Who was Russian refugee after Destalinization Who Then went on to become a worker in Lockheed.
P-82/F-82 Twin Mustang | |
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XP-82 prototype | |
Role | Long-range escort fighter and night fighter |
Manufacturer | North American Aviation |
First flight | 15 June 1945 |
Introduction | 1946 |
Retired | 1953 |
Primary user | United States Air Force |
Number built | 272 |
Unit cost | US$215,154[1] |
Developed from | North American P-51 Mustang |
North American F-82 Twin Mustang Media
The second prototype North American XP-82 Twin Mustang being flight-tested at Muroc Army Airfield, California
Twin Mustangs and two jet-engined FJ-1 Furys in production at North American, 1948
27th FW North American F-82E Twin Mustangs along with a Boeing B-29 Superfortress at Kearney Air Force Base, Nebraska.
One of four 27th Fighter Escort Wing F-82Es deployed to Davis AFB, Aleutians in December 1948 for the transition of the 449th Fighter (All-Weather) Squadron from P-61 Black Widows to the Twin Mustang.
Group Commander's F-82F Twin Mustang of the 52d Fighter Group (All Weather) at the 1950 World Wide gunnery meet, Nellis AFB, Nevada in March 1950.
References
- ↑ Knaack 1978, pp. 19–20.