I think the problem with the P51 for many people is familiarity, there are so many around. It features on 1000s of trashy history channel shows wherein we are told over and over it "won the war" and we see them at Reno every year. But more significantly every airshow seems to features one or two examples.
Unfortunately being told "hey, there is an airshow 2 hours up the road and it features a P51" just does not have the same effect as being told ""there is an airshow 2 hours up the road and it features an Emil or Hurricane or he111 or p38 or b17 etc etc".
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