Hay Roadtripessentials,
I stand corrected...I just went to the Nitro Planes web sight and I found that they do have a twin mustang ! They also did the same thing that World Models did...and stuck two .40/.46 class single engine mustang fuse. together to make the airframe. The fuse is no where near scale but it works ok and in the air...you can hardly tell the difference. I have no experience with the N.P. single engine P-51D, but I do with the W.M. issue of the P-51D. The W.M. P-51D set the standard for the ARF P-51 in the .40/.46 class for excellent flight perfomance and construction. Hence...the W.M. F-82 flies just like the single engine P-51D...accept if flies better. I'm not sure if any of this helps you...but my rap on the F-82's.

The W.M F-82 now lists for $250.00...and four years ago when I bought my F-82 from W.M., it cost me $350.00 plus shiping. The N.P. P-82 sells for $199.00...and is the same size as the W.M. F-82. Price wise the N.M. is the better deal...but understand...N.P. instructions leave much to be desired...or in short, suck some serious hind wind...and I'm being nice to these so called assembly manuals that N.P. puts in their kits... W.M. has a much more user friendly assembly manual and their kit goes together easy and sweet.

The N.P. P-82 uses a conventional center wing, flap...the W.M. F-82 utilizes a center wing, split flap. N.P. uses plywood doublers for wing assembly, and the W.M. uses a alum. wing tube. N.P. uses a plastic peace for the retract wheel wells, and W.M. uses a built in balsa wheel well in their center wings, for the retacts. All the rest looks the same...but until I have my hands on the N.P. kit...I will not know for sure.

My N.P. P-38 I built came out 3.7 pounds heavyer then the instructions called out for...and that was the norm for this kit. My W.M. F-82 was no light weight either...but it handled the weight just fine. N.P. calls out a G.W. weight for their P-82 at just under 10#...and I doubt that you can build this kit at this weight. Both kits will have 9 servo's and you will use a ton of wires to hook everything up. I ended using two receivers and two smaller nicads to power my model...same for my P-38.

W.M. had issues with weak landing gear legs on their F-82...and W.M. went through several up grades to their mechanical retracks for their kit. You may want to buy a set of W.M. F-82 mechanical retracts...the last issue of their retracks work ok for me...but the N.P. mechanical retracks look questionalble and rather thin in their pictures. The issues with W.M retractable landing gear for their F-82 was that it could not handle the weight of the model. They used a cut down version of their .40/46 class P-51D landing gear...and the F-82 that W.M. sold was substansually heaver then the single engine P-51D.

Soft Landings always,
Bobby of Maui