::: Part 26 of a series of Warbird Photos ::: -------- SPECIAL -------- On March 6th, 2004 I had the special honor of going up in a World War 2 North American SNJ Texan trainer over Chino, California (from the Planes of Fame Museum) and meet up with a North American P-51D Mustang (my favorite plane of all time) and take my first ever Air-To-Air photos!!! :) What a way to get a start into that. It was actually my first ever small plane right, and aside from a commercial plane to Oahu and back, my second ever time in a airplane! Wow was it amazing and so much fun. (I even got to fly the Texan for a little while!!) This aircraft is a North American P-51D Mustang named 'Spam Can'. The P-51 was an amazing airplane, it was originally designed as a british contract, and a prototype was built in an amazing 102 days! It wasn't until the slower Allison engines were replaced by the British Rolls Royce Merlin engines that the P-51 Mustang start to become what we know of today. And the US Army Air Force took notice of the A-36 Apache and early P-51 models. The D model, shown pictured here, was the most produced of the P-51 models. Some were used through Korea and even Vietnam as Napalm bombers. Camera is a digital Minolta Dimage 7hi (5 MP). This image has been shrunk down to 33% of the original full size. Manual Focus, custom White Balance, and custom contrast/exposure value settings to help in the harsh reflections from the shiney aluminum.