Tamiya 61044 - 1/48 North American F-51D Mustang Korean WWII 田宮軍事模型戰機 雙星孖星  [61044]

Armed with six .50 caliber device weapons, three in each wing, with 400 rounds for every inboard caliber machine weapons, three in each wing, with 400 rounds for every inboard weapon and 270 rounds the other four, plus underwing pylons for auxiliary gas tanks of 1000lb bombs, the Mustang was a real fighter pilots airplane. At the conclusion of WW2, Mustangs were in operation all over the world, flying in a number of countries air forces.

As soon as the Korean conflict broke out, countless F (for fighter) 51&39;s were in Japan waiting for scraping. Since they possessed the slow rate maneuverability that has been missing in the brand new jets then entering service, the F-51 had been perfect to work well with Forward Air Controllers (FAC&39;s) on the floor in Korea. The main drawback to the ended up being the F-51&39;s fluid cooled engine susceptibility to anti-aircraft and small arms fire when attacking ground objectives. This cause the Mustang to truly have the greatest loss ratio of any aircraft in Korea. An overall total of 194 had been lost in 3 years, with only 10 being downed in combat with other aircraft.