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Mustang Series
B17 Series
The Long Road Home
With formation discipline slightly relaxed as the Group leaves the threat of Luftwaffe attacks behind a huge tract of sky is painted by the ‘Mighty 8th’. The various squadrons of the B17 Group show several ‘holes’ in the formation make-up as less fortunate aircraft have failed to complete the trip. Also relaxed are the escorting P51s at the end of a long mission for single-seat fighters - the whole panorama illustrates the huge impact that the US 8th Air Force made on the European WW2 campaign.
While thankful to be nearly home they would be off again in a couple of days for another similar sortie - by this time a crew would be required to undertake no less than 35 missions to complete their operational tour, a daunting task with a very low probability of success.
My thanks to Connor for the suggestion for the 'design' for this one.
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 20D |
| Lens: | 24.0-60.0 mm |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 16 Sep 2010 - 6:28 PM |
| Focal Length: | 30mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Aperture: | f/16.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/125sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | 'The Long Road Home' |
| Username: | 
patspeirs |
| Uploaded: | 5 Dec 2011 - 11:50 AM |
| Tags: | Aircraft, B17, Digital art, Mustang, Ww2 |
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Comments
Magnificent. As a pilot, nothing could be better then the sound of a Mustang Merlin.
Peter
Quote: nothing could be better then the sound of a Mustang Merlin.
'Rolls-Royce Merlin?'
The Mustang originally had an Allison engine. The Merlin was added later and was never intended for the Mustang.
Another brilliant composition Pat. I love Mustangs. As always an excellent narrative
Quote: nothing could be better then the sound of a Mustang Merlin.
'Rolls-Royce Merlin?'
The Mustang originally had an Allison engine. The Merlin was added later and was never intended for the Mustang.
I thought the later P51 flew with a Merlin licence built by Packard?
Mick
Quote: I thought the later P51 flew with a Merlin licence built by Packard?
The later ones did, which is what I said above.
I know for certain that "Big Beautiful Doll" (or the original aircraft at least) depicted here was Merlin powered but the first Mustangs off of the production line and indeed from the drawing board, were powered by an Allison which turned out to be a very underpowered choice.
Hence the adoption of the Merlin, which by that time had proved its worth in plenty of RAF aircraft.
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