COBI Top Gun P51D Mustang Set

The COBI Top Gun P51D Mustang Set features 350 highly detailed brick parts and colorful, easy to read detailed instructions.  The COBI Top Gun P51D Set parts all work perfectly with LEGO and you will be impressed with LEGO quality of COBI sets.  COBI Sets differ in that they offer many more pieces and the majority of the parts are unique to COBI.  You can learn more about the similarities and differences between COBI and LEGO here.

The COBI 5846 P51 is the second COBI Top Gun P51 set and is presented in 1:32 scale. It has all pad printed parts so no messy stickers are required. The features a longer wingspan and fuselage than the prior version.

COBI Top Gun P-51 Dimensions:

• Length – 12.2″
• Width – 13.8″
• Height – 5.12″

Check out the other Officially Licensed COBI Top Gun Maverick Sets here:

• COBI Top Gun Limited Edition F18E Super Hornet COBI 5805
• COBI Standard Edition F18E Super Hornet COBI 5804

The COBI Top Gun P51D Mustang Set includes 1 figure and all the markings are pad printed so stickers are not necessary. This COBI top Gun Maverick set set is specifically licensed by the TOP Gun Maverick franchise and it will be available fall 2020.

Also consider the COBI Top Gun Maverick F18 Set and the new for 2022 COBI P-51D Pluto set here.

North American P-51D History:

The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a design team headed by James Kindelberger  of North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation to build Curtiss P-40 fighters under license for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Rather than build an old design from another company, North American Aviation proposed the design and production of a more modern fighter. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed, and first flew on 26 October.

The Mustang was designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine, which had limited high-altitude performance in its earlier variants. The aircraft was first flown operationally by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber (Mustang Mk I). Replacing the Allison with a Rolls-Royce Merlin resulted in the P-51B/C (Mustang Mk III) model and transformed the aircraft’s performance at altitudes above 15,000 ft (4,600 m) (without sacrificing range),  allowing it to compete with the Luftwaffe’s fighters. The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the two-speed two-stage-supercharged Merlin 66, and was armed with six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) AN/M2 Browning machine guns.

At the start of the Korean War, the Mustang, by then redesignated F-51, was the main fighter of the United Nations until jet fighters, including North American’s F-86, took over this role; the Mustang then became a specialized fighter-bomber. Despite the advent of jet fighters, the Mustang remained in service with some air forces until the early 1980s. After the Korean War, Mustangs became popular civilian warbirds and air racing aircraft.

You can read more about the real aircraft that inspired the COBI Top Gun P51D Mustang Set here at Wikipedia.

About TOP GUN MAVERICK:

Top Gun: Maverick (links to the official Top Gun movie page)is an upcoming American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie and a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. It is the sequel to 1986’s Top Gun. The film stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film.

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