>The Mustang was a killer plane, it is a classic, one of my favourites.
Arguably the best propellor driven fighter of the war, although there's
no real way to say. Too many other things bear on victories. By the time
the P-51 came along the Luftwaffe was suffering from fuel shortages and a
lot of their best pilots had been killed. The US Army Air Corps had a
policy of rotating their best pilots out of combat to use as instructors,
so the training level of Mustang pilots got better. This sort of thing
also took place in the Pacific.
No question that the Spitfire is the war's best-looking fighter.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen. ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw Received on Sun Jan 18 21:29:00 2004
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