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I don't know what your problem is, but I'm not angry in the least... Didn't I just say that all of those props pulled from each other? Third hand info? All of my info is first rate coming from the actual Aeroproducts design records, field records, and pilot reports. There's just alot of it so it would be rather tedious to post it all here. Oh yeah, you can come back down to earth sir and be a bit more professional in your posts... Congratulations about working on warbirds and talking to people, but that doesn't make you an instant expert on everything about them. Pilots can be bias and wartime performance of a plane can be alot better then peace time performance depending on the upkeep of the birds in the two scenarios. Plus, it all depends on the plane too... A good number of P-47M's were hot rodded to do speeds over 500mph when the plane is only supposed to do 473mph. Okay, so I was wrong about the horsepower numberrs, but now you're telling me that you're estimating. I can make guesses too, but this is all about drawing conclusions. My conclusions, for the most part, aren't about the P-51H, but about the P-51K. In wartime, the P-51K-1NT and P-51K-5NT had poorer performance than their respective D counterparts due to unbalanced Aeroproducts props and had their props switched out for Hamilton Standards. The later P-51K-10NT and P-51K-15NT had the prop issues worked out due to improvements and revisions in production and they actually outperformed their respective D counterparts. Thank you for your contributions to this effort...