it s hard to tell precisely how many numbers we ve seen from open source and a live shot at the airport, it appears five planes may have come in. five may be inbound at this time. these are rough numbers, but continuing to mover along. the last numbers that we heard from the state department excuse me, the white house suggests that there were 4200 taken off between the 3:00 a.m. and 3:00 mmp.m. of friday. that s a significant reduction in the tense of thousands. and from a source familiar with the situation at the airport it appears that the evacuation as of yesterday was beginning to wind down. how many more people can they get, though, into the airport is a key question, obviously. the gates closed on the exterior. the capacity for the escort missions that are being done to get people with taliban approval through to the inside of the airport exceptionally fraught, given the current isis threat but the clock clearly ticking. there was going to be a point where the operation was swi
Was the P-51 Mustang the Greatest Plane to Ever Have Existed?
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Born in the U S A : The P-51 Mustang Proved America s Military Strength
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The airplane truly did develop into an outstanding fighter but it did not start out that way.
If a single airplane has captured the public imagination more than any other, it is undoubtedly the North American P-51 Mustang fighter. In the minds of many, including the young fighter pilots who flew it during the final year of combat in Europe, it was the P-51 that allowed the Allies to attain complete air superiority over Europe.
Many of the accolades bestowed upon the Mustang are not quite in tune with the facts, however. The airplane truly did develop into an outstanding fighter but it did not start out that way. Oddly enough, the design of the Mustang came about completely by accident and was more the result of corporate pride than military necessity. Its subsequent development also was more accidental than by design. The U.S. Army never even wanted the airplane, and the British were not happy with it when they got theirs.