Name that plane

Gas guzzlers ? Probably : unless you consider how much the pilots were paying. Free to drive until payday came around ! Blank check and all that.
Like I told a Army Major when he was stationed in Iran, "Feel free to expend a few thousand dollars of my tax money in .50 cal., rockets, missiles and if it's close quarters small arms I'll pony-up tenfold when ya need it". "Ya won't hear me complain". Actually it was worded somewhat different but this is an open forum!

 

This is the best I can find having the closest perspective. The P51D doesn't appear as tall as the plane in the pic I'm inquiring about. But hey, I'll eventually get another shot of me in a P - F80 and compare those.

 

Yeah yeah I gotta fest up. The plane I was curious about is undoubtedly a P51D. I was really hoping I had found a picture of Merle in the P80. After relenting on my bullhead-iness and looking closer at the canopy everyone else was right and I was wrong! The P80 has a rounded top edge as the P51 has that flatter top.
No worries, I've become accustomed to being wrong or misguided a lot more than I've been 'somewhat correct'.

 

Gray ?! I've been white headed since by forties. I lost all gray matter many years ago.

 

Name that plane?

Swings bottle of cheap champagne. "I name thee 'Pookie'!"

 

I don't recall a hole to fire a pistol but then again I was too engrossed in bringing my 6 .50's in line with a Mitsubishi crossing my path ! As far as I do remember, there wasn't much room on the left side of the cockpit to do much more than smack your left elbow.

 

What is the hole on the left side of a P-51 Mustang's fuselage used for? - Quora