The beginning of James Howard’s P-51B ‘Ding Hao’ profile

My new profile project is James Howard’s P-51B ‘Ding Hao’. As my existing P-51B profile template is about 20 years old, I am starting from scratch and creating a new scale drawing and profile template for the project. As aways, the first step is...

Getting it Right – P-51 Radios

One very common mistake in many published drawings of P-51B/Cs is the depiction of the SCR-274 radio behind the pilot for all models prior to the D. The SCR-274 was only used on early P-51s without the fuselage fuel tank (shown below left), so when depicting a B or C...