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The P-51 Mustang was a single-seat fighter aircraft used on Earth, by the United States of America, during the Second World War. It was primarily used for bomber escort. It was well-armed, with six .50 caliber machine guns in its wings. (ENT: "Storm Front")
Listed airplanes Edit
- Serial # 47-2217, Registry I*AS
- Serial # (unknown), Registry BI*S
Background information Edit
The 1944 sequences in "Zero Hour" were scripted to be set circa 1942, but the visual effects team discovered – after some research – that this type of airplane could not be used in that setting. "We realized there were no P-51 Mustangs in 1942 San Francisco," explained Eden FX staff member Robert Bonchune. "But there would have been P-39-Airacobras and P-38s." Executive producer Rick Berman decided to set the sequences two years later, so that the P-51s could be included. (Star Trek Magazine issue 118, p. 31)
For the month of April, in the Star Trek: Ships of the Line (2013) calendar, the painting "Time Bandits" by Alain Rivard depicted the moment when the shuttlepod was attacked by the Mustangs.