P-51D Mustang (World Fighter Aircraft Collection)

The P-51 Mustang was probably the best overall fighter aircraft of thesecond world war.

North American Aviation proposed the design to the British, who ordered 320 aircraft in March of 1940 before any had even been built.   It featured new technology like a laminar flow wing and a radiator design, visible under the plane's belly, which used the air heated by the engine to produce additional thrust.

This Mustang, "Tempus Fugit" is owned by Tony Raftis, it served as a P-51D with the Royal Swedish Air Force before being sold to the Nicaraguan Air Force.   Its restoration as a TF-51 two-seat trainer was only completed in 2006, and it was painted in this scheme only three months before this photograph was taken during the 2006 "Aviation Nation" airshow at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.