usnavyam3 Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 I was wondering if anyone knows the difference between a p-51 and a f-51. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wffwii Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 (edited) I'm sure someone can give a much more technical answer than I can. In essence, it's the same aircraft. By the time the Korean War rolled around, all of the P- designations for aircraft had been done away with, so they were called F-51 toward the end of their service life. I believe it coincides with when the USAAF became the USAF. Edited July 29, 2005 by wffwii Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yardbird78 Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 The P stood for Pursuit as in P-38, P-47, P-51, etc. When the Air Force became a separate service in Sept 1947, they wanted to get away from most things ARMY, so someone came up with the idea of changing all Pursuit designations to F for fighter. P-51 became F-51 and so on. It is the same airplane with a different designation. Darwin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BAM'n'IVM Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 The difference? About five years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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