North American Aviation responded with a design they had in the works of two modified P-51H Mustang fuselages mated together in a twin boom design with a new center wing and tailplane, maintaining ...

North American XP-82 Twin Mustang 44-83887 on test flight over Sierras, 1945.U.S. Air Force On June 27th, 1950, five F-82s were performing a high-stakes escort mission for Air Force transports ...

In response, North American Aviation created the F-82 ... In some cases these “defective” P-51 parts ended up being intended for the Twin Mustang project, and would get added to the collection ...