P 51B FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS

A very interesting wartime training film on the P-51B. This was the first model to use the British designed Rolls-Merlin engine. It had problems with the guns jamming due to an unusual mounting system. The cockpit hatch would also stick causing many pilots to die because they could not bail out.Many of these went to the 14th Air Force in China. Future Hollywood character actor Arthur Kennedy plays the Bob the pilot. #P-51B

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That's Lee J. Cobb as 'Arthur', the civilian official from North American Aviation