My neighborhood deli is owned and operated by a Korean family. I believe he was in the Air Force there. On the wall is a poster of a twin fusellage AC described as a P-82 Mustang. Sure looks like two Mustangs with three wings, one in common. Ths poster indicated it was developed in 1945 and made the first combat kill in the Korean convlict.

I would guess that few were made, and that it was pretty inefficent due to a lot of surface friction compared to the payload. On the other hand, it must have had a great power-to-weight ratio and pretty good manueverability. I'm no airman, so just going on intuition here. Comments welcome.

I always thought that was a weird looking plane. Think it was designed as a long range fighter to replace the P-38. Don't think they saw much action though.

I went to a CAF airshow in Harlingen Texas in the mid 1980s. They had a Twin Mustang being restored in the hangar. I think they had a problem finding the prop that turned the opposite direction. I later saw the plane fly at another air show.

They were flying ops in early Korea days.
Link for ya...
http://www.crazyhorseap.be/Mus...nMustang/F-82_03.htm

the p-82s served in korea with the 4th, 68th, and339th fighter [all weather] squadn. in ashija and suwan and they where stationed at many bases in japan and on okinawa.

Looks like alittle like the P38. Its cool anyways i always like the look of the P 51 and two together is just better!!

One of the cooler variants was the night fighter version and the aerial photo version. There were some based here in Alaska and I have been to a couple of the wreck sites to collect parts with a friend. I believe the P-82 used the smaller "H" model fuselages.

Bob Hoover wrote about flying them in his book "Forever Flying". Interesting read if you get the chance.