North American F-82B Twin Mustang(Betty Jo) Of a total of 273 F-82s produced, 20 were F-82Bs. The F-82B on display, Betty-Jo, flew from Hawaii to New York on Feb. 27-28, 1947, a distance of 5,051 miles, the longest non-stop flight ever made by a propeller-driven fighter. Betty-Jo came to the museum in 1957. #avgeek #mustang #dronevideo #history | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

The F-82 Twin Mustang was built by joining two P-51s with a shared wing and tail, designed late in World War II as a long-range bomber escort, but it arrived too late to see combat in Europe and instead became the last American piston-engine fighter to score aerial victories, flying the first U.S. air combat missions of the Korean War. | Abandoned Spaces

The F-82 became a star at the beginning of the Korean War, after winning the conflict’s first air-to-air victory... | Dark Documentaries