Many superlatives have been written about North American Aviation' P-51 Mustang. At the time of its greatest moments in the latter stage of the Second World War, and in the decades following that time, it came to be regarded as a warplane virtually without equal. Celebrated by many, and with a war record that few other combat aircraft of its own time or since have been able to match, the North American P-51 Mustang tends to stand head and shoulder above many of it contemporaries, and was undoubtedly on a par with the very best of its breed.
