XP-51G!

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13aceofspades13

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i was reading my book "Mustang, the story of the P-51 fighter." and ran across this page about a concept P-51 they made during WWII, for those of you who love WWII fighters, you may get a kick out of this one.

the XP-51G was one of the best, if not the best performing P-51s made, it was only a concept aircraft but they made a few of them. it had a engine that created over 2,000HP and some of them where equipped with 5 blade props, it had a top speed exceeding 490MPH and had a rate of climb of over 5,000fpm capable of reacing 20,000ft in only roughly 3.5 minutes. its service sealing of 46,000ft was only limited beacuse the cockpit was not pressurized!!! :D YAY!

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I'm not an aircraft guy, but that's some cool stats. When did they make them? Was it after the war?
 
Igard said:
I'm not an aircraft guy, but that's some cool stats. When did they make them? Was it after the war?
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i think it was more towards the end of the war... they never went into production beacuse they never really needed them, they also had the P-51H which actually went into production during the Korean war, but that was also just a concept during WWII as well, but it was a little slower and not as good as a performer!
 
Iconic design. It's amazing what they could build back then. Pales in comparison to what we can do now, but it does make my mind boggle.
 
@Iguard
yea... its too bad this one never went into production

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crazy... yes, just imagine if this thing was put into service, what piston powered fighter would be capable of competing with it? jets would even be in danger, it almost goes 500MPH
 

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