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This month, work centered on getting the cowling completed, installing the cockpit enclosure, skinning the fuselage undersides, and installing duct covers.
Technicians on the ramp at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California plant, preparing a batch of P-51 Mustangs for delivery. AirCorps Aviation is presently working through a treasure trove of original NAA drawings, cataloguing aviation history for future generations. (Alfred T. Palmer photo via U.S. Library of Congress) It has been about a year since we reported on the major revelation that many thousand original North American Aviation manufacturing drawings survived destruction during the 1980s because one of their employees, Ken Jungeberg, saved them from incineration. Furthermore, a...