Model Mustang looking good at RAF Cosford museum
This striking scale model of an iconic aircraft has gone on display at a Shropshire's RAF Museum Cosford in tribute to fallen airmen.
The 6ft long North American P-51D Mustang took a decade to build and it has been dedicated to the US pilots and crews who gave their lives in support of their European allies during the two world wars.
The model is of the plane flown by Captain Donald R. Emerson, 336 Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. Captain Emerson was killed on Christmas Day 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.
The 1:5 scale aircraft was built by David Glen, who took almost a decade to create it before donating it to the museum in autumn last year.
The Mustang model now forms a centre piece display in the museum's visitor centre.
This means visitors are able to get a close-up view of all its intricate and authentic details.
At over 6ft in length with a wingspan of over 7ft the model bears the markings of VF-B 413317, the aircraft flown by Captain Emerson.
It is the second model Mr Glen has donated to the museum.
His first donation, of a similarly-scaled Spitfire Mk.1, is on display at the RAF Museum London, where the real North American P-51D Mustang can be seen on display.
During World War Two, Mustang pilots claimed 4,950 enemy aircraft shot down. It was also used extensively by American forces during the Korean War.
