Comments by "FiveCentsPlease" (@FiveCentsPlease) on "The Piper PA-48 Enforcer; Mustang on Steroids" video.

  1. + davidca96 By 1947 the newly formed US Air Force had changed fighter naming from "P" to "F", thus Mustangs became the F-51.
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  2. + Doug Hansen Hundreds of them were lost when they were cheap and pilots with little experience could get them. The accident reports are depressing. For example, the fatal crash with a new P-51 owner with his family crammed into the void behind the seat trying to climb over a thunderstorm--without oxygen support. The loss rate continued into the 1980s when new owners could get proper checkout and training on these high-powered aircraft.
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  3. + okisgodhi At the end of WW2 jet engines were not reliable enough for service and did not have the range. There was a huge inventory of piston aircraft and they were used well into the Korean War or sold to export countries for their services.
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