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Flying into Hell: the RNZAF’s atomic Mustangs

Pilot’s death recalls flights whose purpose wasn’t revealed until years afterward.

RNZAF Mustang NZ2422 taxiing at Ohakea in 1953. Photo: Air Force Museum of New Zealand.

Grant Newman Sat, 19 Nov 2022

On October 15, 1953, at RNZAF Base Ohakea, station operations officer Sqn Ldr Allan George climbed into the cockpit of North American P-51 Mustang NZ2404 and taxied out for take-off.

Suspended from the pylons under the aircraft’s wings were cylindrical objects with holes at the front, the purpose

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Grant Newman Sat, 19 Nov 2022
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