Aviation
North American P-51B 'Mustang' fighter in flight over bay area
Date: 1945
Archive: NASA
Print format: 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 11x14 and ISO A sizes
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Original: NASA
Archive: NASA
Print format: 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 11x14 and ISO A sizes
Delivery: Instant digital download
Original: NASA
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About this photograph
This black and white photograph was made in 1945 and comes from the NASA.
North American P-51B 'Mustang' fighter in flight over bay area. The P-51 with its new laminar-flow wing sections developed by NACA was the first airplane selected for testing of airplane drag in flight and wind tunnel comparison
Credit: ARC Lee Jones.
We restored it from the original archival scan – cleaning dust and damage, balancing the tones and enlarging it for print – and set it in a museum-style archival layout with its title, date and source.
