Credit the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (predecessor of NASA) for the success of the Mustang. During the 1930's they had the best wind tunnels in the world.
Several of my high school friends’ fathers were NACA engineers at the Langley AFB facility in Hampton VA in the 1930s through the 1970s. Wind tunnel simulations were still used extensively until computer simulations took over.
31 posted on 09/16/2017 7:24:59 PM PDT by riverdawg