Ironically, there is no evidence that the USAAF had flown a Spitfire LF Mk IXc with a Merlin 66. With official records and the known serial numbers I had researched, they had commonly flown IXs with Merlin 61. Since it’s premium, they will not make historical corrections and prefer it to be in line with the 5.7 IX in the British tree.
But I digress. I am hoping this Mustang will end up in the British tree as TT, and XP-51 (copy-paste Mustang Mk. I with American-made guns) in the US tree as premium.
Don’t mean to be blunt, but have you read the suggestion? This is a unique model of the mustang made before the American versions… this is as British as the Stryker is American
For the British. Without the British Purchasing Committee asking North Americans to build the P-40, the Mustang likely wouldn’t have existed, at least not in the form it did historically.
Also, there was no “USAAF” version of the Spitfire; all of the Spitfires given to the Americans were off-the-shelf models, being the Mk .V, VIII, IX and some recon variants as well, if I remember correctly.
Well, mate, I think I wrote the reply ambiguously. :(
1- I read the suggestion, and I support it.
2.- Yeah, if we hadn’t asked North-American, Mustang wouldn’t exist at all.
3- What I am pointing to with that part was
US Mains enjoys Spitfire, which we gave to them (Premium Spitfire LF Mk.IX, Fine superprops.)
But we cannot even enjoy what we bought or borrow from them.
P-400, P-51, and so on…
:|
And it is frustrating.
I waits British Mustang for years…
but these damn ‘tech-tree uniqueness’…