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A friend of mine flew the P/F 51 in the late 40's then transitioned to the F-82 for the Korean war. He's now gone but IIRC he really preferred the P51. He bought a surplus P51 which he flew for a number of years.
One interesting piece of info that he told me was that he would have the engine serviced and the people could never get the timing right. He finally tracked down all the manuals on the aircraft - about a three to four foot stack of them- since he figured that a combat aircraft ought to be readily serviceable in a forward base area and he found that in one manual the timing was clearly spelled out -- by aligning-something- and some marks through the engine area and the timing was perfect.