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    A jet P-51 Mustang?

    Coming to the opening post, the modification seems to be adding jet engines to a propeller driven aircraft. During the 1962 Indo-China War, one IAF Fairchild Packet were installed with a jet-pack so that it could takeoff from the rarefied airfield in Ladakh. This was also done in India by HAL...
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    A jet P-51 Mustang?

    There were four very successful aircraft, all having more or less the same design. P-51 Mustang Supermarine Spitfire Messerschmitt Bf 109 Yakovlev-3 All of them were very maneuverable and capable fighters. There was one deficiency in the P-51 Mustang. When on a dive, its engines would...
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