Breadboard Mustang?

[John Dupre]

I have been reading the book "Top Guns" by Joe Foss and Mathew Brennan. In the chapter by Ed Rector of the AVG and 23rd Fight Group he mentions bringing a "breadboard Mustang" to China with the then new K-14 gunsight. Just what does that phrase mean? I have never seen or heard it before.

Also Rector mentions having to bail out of that same aircraft while his wingman made a camera only pass at him. He mentions treasuring the film afterward. I took a quick look on line but haven't found it. Is it available anywhere?

[12XU2A3X3]

bread boarding is a term used to refer to an electrical circuit assembled on a bread board as opposed to a printed circuit board. used for prototyping purposes.

[Stephan Wilkinson]

bread boarding is a term used to refer to an electrical circuit assembled on a bread board as opposed to a printed circuit board.

I think we all know that, but the OP was asking what a "breadboard Mustang" was. A P-51 assembled on an enormous breadboard??? Or, more likely, some kind of hand-assembled, one-of-a-kind prototype? Beats me, though I do know what breadboard electronics are.

[12XU2A3X3]

bread boarding is a term used to refer to an electrical circuit assembled on a bread board as opposed to a printed circuit board.

A P-51 assembled on an enormous breadboard???

seems reasonable.

just trying to edify, please forgive me.

[12XU2A3X3]

bread boards, in dc circuit context, weren't created until the sixties.