#f-82

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North American F-82Es Twin Mustang With External Tanks, 1948. ➤➤ LEARN MORE: https://youtu.be/8Qzp65KF7Fs

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[usafphantom5]

North American F-82F Twin Mustang's of the 52d Fighter Group.

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[aviatrix-ash]

Forgot I had a manual to the Twin Mustang shoved in a comicbook box under my bed. I'm totes obsessed with the ink illustrations in it + the yummy yummy maintenance data on one of the most epic (non radial*) piston plane engines ever made

*any radial engine is always instantly cooler than anything else in the room 😌

[airmanisr]

44-65168, North American F-82B Twin Mustang, USAF Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, August 1974 by Gordon Riley Via Flickr: February 1947 Made record flight Hickham Field, HI to New York City, 5,051 miles, the longest non-stop flight by a piston-engined aircraft at that time.

[radarsteddybear]

On the left is a North American F-82G Twin Mustang and on the right is a North American F-82B Twin Mustang.  The Twin Mustang is, quite literally, an airplane with two fuselages and, therefore, two cockpits, on a single wing.  The idea was that it was a way to have two pilots and thus reduce fatigue during longer flights:

With a pilot in each fuselage, it reduced the problem of pilot fatigue on ultra-long-range missions. The P-82F* and G models carried a radar operator in the right cockpit instead of a co-pilot. Both engine throttles and both propellers were controllable from either cockpit by manually operated levers. The pilot's cockpit on the left contained the normal flight and engine instruments, while the co-pilot on the right had sufficient instruments for relief and emergency operation. A simplified cockpit arrangement improved pilot comfort, including a tilting, adjustable seat to reduce fatigue during long flights. (Source)

*The F-82 was originally designated the P-82; after WWII, redesignated all "pursuit" planes to "fighter" planes.

Nowadays, they seem to accomplish this sort of thing by putting additional seats in just one cockpit, but I guess they were really throwing every idea they had at the wall and seeing what stuck back in those days.  And I guess this way you've got both pilots able to see straight ahead, which you don't get in modern-day two-seater fighter planes where the co-pilot (or whoever the second person is) sits behind the pilot.  

Unfortunately, the museum doesn't specify exactly why this particular idea didn't stick, but I can only assume it had something to do with the ridiculousness of being completely physically separated from your copilot.  

I don't know; while it's pretty cool how one pilot or the other can completely take over while the other one can put his seat back and take a nap, I feel like any radio trouble resulting in the two pilots (or pilot + radar operator) being unable to verbally communicate with one another could be a really big problem.  Then again, I don't have any idea how common radio problems like that really are, so for all I know, this isn't actually a concern.  

Anyway, these things (272 of them!) were ordered by the US military at the tail end of WWII and didn't arrive until 1946.  They were used extensively during the Korean War, but were retired in 1953 in favor of fighter jets.

Fun fact about the Betty Joe (right): on February 27-28, 1947, she flew from Hawaii to New York, a distance of 5,051 miles, which is the longest non-stop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter plane.  This really was a long-range aircraft.

Below are two additional photographs of the Betty Joe from the museum website where you can see her configuration a little bit better.

[envisitadecortesia]

Fragata Victoria

A las 8 horas y 50 minutos del 27 de mayo de 2024 hacía su entrada al puerto de Barcelona la fragata Victoria (F-82) de la Armada española. Ha quedado atracada en el Muelle de Barcelona paramento este y ahí permanecerá hasta el 29 de mayo. Ha sido asistida por los remolcadores Cala Gullo en proa y Montalt en popa(imagen de Antoni Casinos Va) Esta es su tercera visita al puerto de la Ciudad…

[madkot]

Twin Mustang

[les-belles-mecaniques]

Cabriolet Matford F 82 A, 1938

[wardensantoineandevka]

I love when a footnote takes up the entire page

[sunnylolli]

Of course Alfred is loud and walks with all his weight in his heels, have you seen how fucking massive the USA is?? Only 48% of the entire country has people living in it.

The US has space for him, stepping foot in Europe would probably be the equivalent of setting foot into a sandbox.

[madkot]

North American F-82 Twin Mustang

[aviatrix-ash]

"How to troubleshoot your Twin Mustang"

Sure. Only 272 of these were built originally, 5 remain, and exactly 1 is airworthy... I'll get right on that 😅

[airmanisr]

44-65162 / N12102, North American P-82B Twin Mustang, Harlingen, August 1974 by Gordon Riley Via Flickr: At this time it was under restoration to fly. This was achieved but it suffered a landing accident at Harlingen on 10 October 1987. Legal action during 2008-2009 resulted in the aircraft being taken back by the National Museum of the Air Force and it is now displayed at Wright-Patterson AFB where it has been restored as FQ-357, the F-82G crewed by 1st Lt Charles Moran, pilot, and 1st Lt Fred Larkins, radar observer, 68th F(AW)S, when they shot down a North Korean La-7 on 27 June 1950, near Kimpo Air Base, South Korea.

[eternal-moss]

When people continually whitewash my favourite characters.

[ID: A black and white, rough digital drawing of someone sitting at a desk and clutching their head in their hands. End ID.]

^thank you @describe-things

[nocternalrandomness]

F/A-18F departing El Centro with live Mk82 bombs

[usafphantom2]

VFA-82 Strike Hornet 2004. (catalano)

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