North American F-82B Twin Mustang(Betty Jo) Of a total of 273 F-82s produced, 20 were F-82Bs. The F-82B on display, Betty-Jo, flew from Hawaii to New York on Feb. 27-28, 1947, a distance of 5,051 miles, the longest non-stop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter. Betty-Jo came to the museum in 1957. #avgeek #mustang #dronevideo #history | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

The North American F-82 Twin Mustang is the last American piston-engine fighter ordered into production by the United States Air Force. Based on the P-51 Mustang, the F-82 was originally designed as a long-range escort fighter in World War II. The war ended well before the first production units were operational. Initially intended as a very long-range (VLR) escort fighter, the F-82 was designed to escort Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers on missions exceeding 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the Sol

The F-82 Twin Mustang was built by joining two P-51s with a shared wing and tail, designed late in World War II as a long-range bomber escort, but it arrived too late to see combat in Europe and instead became the last American piston-engine fighter to score aerial victories, flying the first U.S. air combat missions of the Korean War. | Abandoned Spaces