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The Twin Mustang | When North American Merged Two P-51 Mustang | P-82 Aircraft | Weird Wings History

Jan 13, 2023  The North American F-82 Twin Mustang is the last American piston-engined fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the North American P-51 Mustang, the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in World War II. The war ended well before the first production units were operational.

 In the postwar era, Strategic Air Command used the aircraft as a long-range escort fighter. Radar-equipped F-82s were used extensively by the Air Defense Command as replacements for the Northrop P-61 Black Widow as all-weather day/night interceptors. During the Korean War, Japan-based F-82s were among the first USAF aircraft to operate over Korea. The first three North Korean aircraft destroyed by U.S. forces were shot down by F-82s, the first being a North-Korean Yak-11 downed over Gimpo Airfield by the USAF 68th Fighter Squadron.

Initially intended as a very long-range (VLR) escort fighter, the F-82 was designed to escort Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers on missions exceeding 2,000 mi (3,200 km) from the Solomon Islands or Philippines to Tokyo, missions beyond the range of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning and conventional P-51 Mustangs. Such missions were part of the planned U.S. invasion of the Japanese home islands, which was forestalled by the surrender of Japan after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the opening of Soviet attacks on Japanese-held territory in Manchuria.

The second prototype North American XP-82 Twin Mustang being flight-tested at Muroc Army Airfield, California

In October 1943 the North American Aircraft design team began work on a fighter design that could travel over 2,000 mi (3,200 km) without refueling. It consisted of a twin-fuselage design, parallel to the experimental German Messerschmitt Bf 109Z "Zwilling." Although based on the lightweight experimental XP-51F, which would later become the P-51H Mustang, it was actually a new design. North American Design Chief Edgar Schmued incorporated two P-51H Mustang fuselages lengthened by the addition of a 57 in (1,400 mm) fuselage plug located behind the cockpit where additional fuel tanks and equipment could be installed. These were mounted to a newly designed center wing section containing the same six .50 caliber (12.7mm) M3 Browning machine guns as a single-engine Mustang, but with more concentrated fire. The first XP-82 prototype was equipped with a removable centerline gun pod housing eight additional .50 caliber M3 Brownings, but this did not feature on production aircraft. An even more powerful centerline gun pod containing a 40 mm (1.6 in) cannon was considered, but was never built. The outer wings were reinforced to allow the addition of hard points for carrying additional fuel or 1,000 lb (450 kg) of ordnance. The two vertical tails were also from the XP-51F, but incorporated large dorsal fillets for added stability in case of an engine failure. The aircraft had a conventional landing gear with both wheels retracting into bays under each fuselage center section.

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[atpsynth4se]

how much funnier would vlr be if sigma was a liberal arts major

#akane: you need to become a master of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence #sigma; who has studied nothing but ancient greek history for the past four years: i need to what #zero escape #vlr lb #vlr

[rootbeerfloats]

i just finished virtue's last reward

#speaking #vlr lb #IM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND

[crossgartered]

are you kIDDING ME [REDACTED]?!?!?!?!

"she's just like him. Not the Akane I knew"

REALLY??? REALLY?!?!?!?!?!

#REALLY #that is EXACTLY the akane you knew you ABSOLUTE DUMBASS #spoilers ? #jeeeeeezuussssss #this one gets emotional at video games #liveblogging again #vlr lb

[vincentspork]

“This is not an end. Because you are in an infinity loop“ HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

#Okay um so basically last time I played Sora was like yeah the ship is fucked and we only have like a day before it sinks completely #So all the characters threw a party #Coco came down with an illness and everybody had to break into the Himmel room that the protag kept passing but couldnt open previously #In there they found a scientist who was also affected by The Illness so they had to go into the lower decks of the facility (which Sora had #previously lied about since she said everyone was already on the lowest possible floor #) to access a research facility in the hopes that they could find something to help Coco and the researcher #in there they find. basically the cryosuspension beds from VLR and also a bunch of bodies of other scientists who had contracted the disease #they also find research notes saying that Coco's father is a scientist who worked in the lower levels of the facility. btw the theme park wa #s a front for researching this disease in the first place. um anyway everyone died #now I have to do a new route let's fuckin goooooo #ever17 lb #ever17 spoilers #I GUESS in case any of yall wanna play this very clunky vn blind

[lantsmcclain]

me, reading the opening voiceover of the Voltron Legendary Rewrite, feeling Katara in my bones, sensing the ATLA theme about to start playing in my 7th sense:

#BUT I BELIEVE... AANG CAN SAVE THE WORLD #'AND WE? WE ARE LEGENDS.' #THE POWER KATIE!!!!!!!!!!! THE PWOER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #LB VLR #YES IM MAKING A TAG #IM NOT STARTING IT FOR REAL I HAVE STUFF TO DO BUT I HAD TO PEEK #KATIE CAN I CALL YOU KATHERINE BECAUSE I HAVE A FEELING IM GONNA NEED FULL NAME RIGHTS

[demonsites]

huh why does alice ally with you when you betray her but when you ally with her she betrays you?? what's with this bullshit i swear to god I FEEL BAD

#💬 #zevlr lb #vlr spoilers #i was angry at her 4 betraying me so i was like haha finally i get 2 betray her but NO?? #fbh i was gonna betray from the start but i misclicked

[chekhovsgunshow]

OF COURSE that'd be the clover ending, of course

#vlr lb

[castlehark]

FINALLY

#OHOHOHOHO IM SO EXCITED #vlr lb #talking tag

[troznaberius-remade]

yeee im completely done w the game now

#vlr lb #idk if im gonna start ztd right away #maybe later or tomorrow

[atpsynth4se]

she’s not gonna fuck you, dude

#[im talking about luna] #zero escape #vlr lb #anyone discourses on this post and i s2g #please idc abt ships im normal no one come after me for this

[rootbeerfloats]

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#vlr lb #..................................... you know

[crossgartered]

Did I...miss something?

#arent i supposed to jump somewhere? but there are no more openended jump squares? #that didnt feel like an ending #what a weird note to end on if thats truly the case #liveblogging again #this one gets emotional at video games #vlr lb

[vincentspork]

I really really like how ztd!Sigma talks about Luna. He built her to keep him company after the death of his wife, but because he created her, he saw her, more than anything, as his own child and not Wife 2.0

#vlr spoilers #ALSO THE PART WHERE HE SAYS HE LIVED W DIANA FOR 3 YEARS ANS SPENT 25 YEARS MAKING LUNA. OK *SOBS* #ztd lb

[lantsmcclain]

Katie’s Keith stan really jumps out at this part where it’s just a fullblown paragraph-style fanfic...... i would judge but frankly...bitch me too tf..

#wouldnt want it any other way! #lb vlr #the rest of this outline: bullet points #keith's entrance: Flower Language and Metaphors #immmm DEAD #SAME

[demonsites]

duuuuuude just lie to him! say ur gonna vote ally but u gotta give quark the medicine NOW, then betray his ass

#💬 #zevlr lb #vlr spoilers