North American P/F 51 Mustang in Italian Service

A bilingual text rich in black & white and colour photographs, colour profiles and an appendix. The book retraces the development and the characteristics of this marvellous fighter, one of the best out of World War II, not only for its effectiveness in war, but also for its special appeal that it has always had on historical aircrafts? lovers. A Mustang that even if it didn?t have and operational life closely connected to combatment, contribuited in a decisive way to the rebirth of the Aeronautical Militare Italiana and to the improvement in the technical and professional knowledge of our pilots, marking the watershed between the propeller fighters and the first jet aicraft.