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Description
Designed and produced by North American Aviation for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and later adopted by the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF), The P-51 is widely regarded as the finest all-around piston-engined fighter of World War II to be produced.
Characteristics
| Size | 21 x 28 x 0.2 cm |
| Nbr. of pages | 56 |
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Book cover finish |
Stapled |
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Published date |
1963 First Printing |
| Language | English |
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Conditions |
VG |
| Author | Len Morgan |
| Publisher |
Morgan Aviation Books |
Description
Two Hundred Hours to Remember
The quiet of the evening was gently broken a few minutes ago by the sound of an approaching plane. A well-remembered sound in my ears, the low, even moan of a Rolls-Royce Merlin, and I went outside to look and listen. He was fairly high, six or eight thousand perhaps, and climbing rapidly through the darkness towards that crystal world of thin cold air where the Merlin did its finest work. I could see only a single dim light sliding swiftly through the stars until it lost its motion in the distant night and became one of them, but a vivid mental picture formed of blue flame leaping from short stacks and white-hot carbon sparks streaking past a small dark cockpit. Watching, listening and remembering as the sound grew faint, I would have swapped away all the evening's enchanting serenity on earth for another chance to sit in that cluttered little cockpit and live (...)
P-51, also called Mustang, a single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft originally designed and produced by North American Aviation for the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and later adopted by the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF). The P-51 is widely regarded as the finest all-around piston-engined fighter of World War II to be produced in significant numbers (...)
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