P-51D Mustang BunnyP 51D Bunny Tuskegee airplane model. The North American Aviation P 51 Mustang is an American long range, single seat fighter and fighter bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a design team headed by James Kindelberger of North American Aviation in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation to

The 180's career as a high-performance single was short lived due to the arrival of the tricycle 180 based 182 in 1956

the radio call sign is "Air Force One"

Boeing lost the competition to its rival Lockheed-Martin

depth charges

used by the United States Army Air Corps as a gunnery trainer from 1941 onwards

000 feet of 597 mph

The Saturn V was the largest operational launch vehicle ever produced

Douglas DC-10 United Airlines airplane model

at a scale of 1/72

At the end of the P-40's brilliant career

firefighting

arriving in Okinawa the day before VJ-day