FSX-FS2004 Mustang P-51b
With the limitations for fighter duties due to the  Allison engine, nevertheless, the Mustang had good ground attack potential, and its high speed at low altitude, made it ideal for tactical reconnaissance. To enhance altitude capabilities, a mockup was devised in England to use the Rolls-Royce Merlin  engine in the P-51 airframe. One concept was to locate the new engine behind the cockpit, but this idea was rejected and the Merlin was mounted in the conventional position in the nose. Four airframes were adapted in England to take the Merlin engine. These four planes known as Mustang Xs had deep intakes below the engine for carburetor air. The results of the British tests were passed on to North American. In the meantime, North American had undertaken a similar conversion project and was building two Packard Merlin-powered Mustangs. Level speed improvement was increased 51 mph, to 441 mph. The airframes were strengthened to accommodate the extra power, the ventral radiator was deepened, and the carburetor intake was moved from above the nose to below, to accommodate the Merlin updraft induction system.11 Even before the Army's Merlin  powered Mustangs had flown, The US Army ordered 2,200 of the more powerful fighters. For a short time, this model was designated P-78, then redesignated as P-51B. 25 P-51Bs and 275 P-51Cs were given the British designation Mustang III. The California Mustangs were known as the P-51B-NA and the Dallas, Texas facility produced the P-51C-NT.12 The Merlin-powered P-5lB and its Dallas-built twin, the P-51C, began operations in December 1943. 

Specifications
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Manufacturer 	  North American Aircraft Inglewood California
  Number Built 	  7,956
  Wing Span 	  37 ft. 0 in.
  Overall Length 	  32 ft. 3 in.
  Overall Height 	  13 ft. 8 in.
  Speed (Maximum)  440 mph.
  Range (Maximum)  1,000 miles 2,125 miles 
  Altitude (Maximum)  41,900 ft.
  Armament ; Four .50-cal. machine guns and ten 5 in. rockets or 2,000 lbs. of bombs. 
  Power plant ; V-1650 Rolls-Royce Merlin engine built under license by Packard (1,490hp)

Installation:
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-Unzip " Mustang P51b" into a temporary file and move the "Mustang P51b" folder into the main Aircraft directory.
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-Read instructions carefully when installing the gauges ,  say YES...when asked if the gauges sources should be trusted. If you say no....most of the gauges are not going to work !
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-Leave all gauges in the Mustang P51b panel folder
-Copy the effects into the   Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator ...\effects folder and the 20can.wav into the Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator ...\sound folder.
IMPORTANT : 
-For FS2004 change the  FS9_Wing_Guns.fx into FX_Wing_Guns.fx
and remove the original one.
-landing light is triggered by CTRL+L, all other lights use panel light shift+L.
-exhaust effects use wing/taxi/logo
-guns use strobe .
If having trouble with prop and cockpit transparencies in FSX acceleration, copy the glass.bmp and propdisk. bmp files from the Acceleration.texture into the P51H texture folder.
If you don't like the reflective gunsight just remove the Gsight.bmp.

CREDITS
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Special thanks to : 
-Gil Shaw and Morton for the fuselage/wings textures
-GMAX for the drawing program and Microsoft for their makmdls.mdk.

LEGAL:
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The project is released as freeware.  You may modify it and repaint it. You may upload this file to another website as long as it is not for profit.  
You need the written permission of the original authors to use any of these files for commercial purposes, otherwise a simple credit would be nice. Non commercial repaints-remakes are  welcome but I would appreciate very much receiving a copy of your model.
This file should not cause any problems with your computer, but I accept no responsibility if you think it does


Happy Landings!!

 A.F.Scrub, January 2012. 
af_scrubbypc@hotmail.com
