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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:22:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:27:48 PM EDT
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Gorgeous.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:30:30 PM EDT
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They started with an armored chair, and a GIANT Turbo-supercharger, and then built a fighter airplane AROUND it.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:35:25 PM EDT
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Jugs!
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MI, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:36:19 PM EDT
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As much as I like the Mustang, I'd rather be headed off to unfriendly skies in the Thunderbolt.......and as many drop tanks I could sling underneath it.
Wld rather be sitting behind an air cooled engine vs liquid cooled. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:37:30 PM EDT
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Probably my first choice to fly if I was in the ETO.
She would get you home !! Although the Mustang is incredible too !! |
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USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:46:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KB7DX: Jugs! IBTL? 
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:48:13 PM EDT
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8 .50cal machine guns at 400 mph. Cause we can.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:53:05 PM EDT
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Have seen the CAF's and various ones in museums. Neat plane!
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:56:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By vmax84: As much as I like the Mustang, I'd rather be headed off to unfriendly skies in the Thunderbolt.......and as many drop tanks I could sling underneath it. Wld rather be sitting behind an air cooled engine vs liquid cooled. Exactly. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:58:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Spartacus]
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I'll be in my bunk.
I like big jugs. I've seen that pic of them with other planes superimposed for size comparison. P47 compared to ME109 was eye opening.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:58:31 PM EDT
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My P-47 is a pretty good ship
And she took a round coming cross the Channel last trip I was thinking about my baby and letting her rip Always got me through so far  Johnny Come Lately - Steve Earle & The Pogues - HD Video & Audio Remaster |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 3:59:03 PM EDT
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Seversky started with the SEV-3 amphibian fighter (1933) which evolved into the P-35 (1937). Seversky got booted by the company board in 1938 when he tried to sell fighters to the Japanese and the company was renamed Republic. The P-35 evolved into the P-43 Lancer (1940), several hundred of which entered US service. The Lancer was lightly armed and unarmored, and the Air Force asked for that but faster. Republic brought plans for the P-44 Rocket to a meeting and the Air Force said whoops, lightly armed and unarmored planes are getting slaughtered in Europe, give us a high altitude beast instead. Republic's head engineer sketched out plans on the train ride back to the office and they jumped on it, but it still took three years to field, and another year to really mature.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:07:45 PM EDT
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 USAF WWII - P-47 Thunderbolts over Italy - Second World War Documentary |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:14:25 PM EDT
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Let's put one together.
 P47 Thunderbolt Assembly from Crate |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:27:17 PM EDT
[#15]
 P-47 Thunderbolt flybys |
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IN, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:28:10 PM EDT
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So generic looking compared to nearly everything else during WWII, while at the same time fairly unique. I'm also a fan of the Tempest and Typhoon.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:32:33 PM EDT
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I have a friend that has one in the oven.
It's just about done. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:35:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:39:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:42:40 PM EDT
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One of my favorites.
One year at the Reno Air Races I got to see one parked next to a flying Mitsubishi Zero. Its kinda hard to comprehend that these 2 fought in the same war. One looks like there's not enough "plane" there to fly while the other is the Mack Truck of piston engine fighters. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:48:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACDer: The story is true, the photo is fake. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/69887/1000003554_jpg-3218392.JPG Whoops. thanks. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 4:49:54 PM EDT
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The Tennessee Air Museum has a D model. They had an N model at one time, not sure if they still have it.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 5:09:08 PM EDT
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USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 5:20:54 PM EDT
[Last Edit: FireMissionDivision]
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Posted: 5/19/2024 5:30:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Positronic: They started with an armored chair, and a GIANT Turbo-supercharger, and then built a fighter airplane AROUND it. Yep. Don't forget the EIGHT 50s. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 5:40:42 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MudEagle]
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Originally Posted By vmax84: As much as I like the Mustang, I'd rather be headed off to unfriendly skies in the Thunderbolt.......and as many drop tanks I could sling underneath it. Wld rather be sitting behind an air cooled engine vs liquid cooled. Your preference, but the statistics show that loss rates were pretty consistent across all fighters, both radial engined and V-engined.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 5:42:12 PM EDT
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Time for somebody to post all the Greg's airplane and automobiles P47 series. If it isn't done by tonight I'll do it.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 7:34:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:05:40 PM EDT
[#29]
 8 .50 Cals Firing on the P-47 Thunderbolt |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:27:17 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bunnysriflestock]
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My home town in NJ was a training airfield for P-47 Thunderbolt pilots for WW2 all of the school teams are named the Thunderbolts also.
The Airport still there and has a museum . Here is some video interviews that they have done with P-47 Pilots that went through the Airfield. Some other P-47 and WW2 resources posted there to. WW2 P-47 Pilot interviews Sample  Charles Osborne Murals in town. P-4 Murals 
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:34:38 PM EDT
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I got to meet Gabby Gabreski, he was my Squadron Commander's father.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Gabreski |
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IA, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:40:32 PM EDT
[Last Edit: thunderw21]
[#32]
Got to sit in Fagen's P-47 back in January. More roomy than I expected. My favorite fighter.
  
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:44:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bunnysriflestock: My home town in NJ was a training airfield for P-47 Thunderbolt pilots for WW2 all of the school teams are named the Thunderbolts also. The Airport still there and has a museum . Here is some video interviews that they have done with P-47 Pilots that went through the Airfield. Some other P-47 and WW2 resources posted there to. WW2 P-47 Pilot interviews Sample  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShiQ7eM5TIMurals in town. P-4 Murals https://i.ibb.co/x7Q1zfG/Mural-and-Buildings-2005-4-Web-1024x760.jpg Huh never knew Millville was a training site, I was figuring McGuire was what you were talking about. (Originally from Gloucester County) |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:48:01 PM EDT
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America. Fuck yeah.
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:49:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sixnine: So generic looking compared to nearly everything else during WWII, while at the same time fairly unique. I'm also a fan of the Tempest and Typhoon. Those just had a great look to them, didn't they? |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:55:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Skopsko07734: I got to meet Gabby Gabreski, he was my Squadron Commander's father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Gabreski Cool! My NY cop Dad met him after Korea when Gabby ran the LI Railroad. A heroic, and iconic, American aviator. |
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Posted: 5/19/2024 9:58:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By thunderw21: Got to sit in Fagen's P-47 back in January. More roomy than I expected. My favorite fighter. https://i.imgur.com/a9sm9H8.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/9Hr8wDh.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/FS4C3bj.jpeg You lucky dog, you. I remember reading someone's memoirs about flying Thunderbolts and he mentioned a Jewish wingman who was "built to fit in a Jug. Narrow shoulders and a wide butt."
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:02:44 PM EDT
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A couple of pics of my uncle's plane on Ie Shima. You don't see too much about the P-47N's since they were only late war Pacific beasts.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:05:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Positronic: They started with an armored chair, and a GIANT Turbo-supercharger, and then built a fighter airplane AROUND it.  
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:06:07 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 549]
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Razorback Jug is best looking jug.
I've got an old VHS tape that was made from a training video from WWII for pilots learning to fly the P-47. It was very interesting. I'd watch it again if I still had a VCR. |
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:06:54 PM EDT
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My uncle ( Moms brother ) flew Jugs in the ETO. 2.5 air combat kills and numerous targets on the ground. He was and is still one of my greatest hero’s.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:10:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:11:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryProbably shot himself down. 
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:13:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cone256: Huh never knew Millville was a training site, I was figuring McGuire was what you were talking about. (Originally from Gloucester County) Decent museum there. The big part that they did was track down Pilots that went through there and document ones that died. They also preserved the original flight simulator building a long with working original simulators. |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 5/19/2024 10:21:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GDaawg]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BM1455: Probably shot himself down. Somewhere on youtube there is a short gun cam clip of a german train munitions explosion blowing an overheard p47 to smithereens. I'll see if I can find it again. |
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Posted: 5/20/2024 3:38:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryMy favorite P-47 video. The engineering in the crate is as impressive as that of the plane's. |
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MD, USA
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Posted: 5/20/2024 6:51:05 AM EDT
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Back in the 80's I worked with an engineer whose father was a crew chief on P-47s during WWII.
He said that the first thing he'd do after a flight was look into the cockpit at the throttle quadrant to see if the safety wire blocking the channel to War Emergency Power (WEP) was broken. If it was, the engine was removed and a new/rebuilt one was installed. I'd have loved talking to him for a few hours to find out more about the plane. |
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Posted: 5/20/2024 7:41:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jmt1991: Back in the 80's I worked with an engineer whose father was a crew chief on P-47s during WWII. He said that the first thing he'd do after a flight was look into the cockpit at the throttle quadrant to see if the safety wire blocking the channel to War Emergency Power (WEP) was broken. If it was, the engine was removed and a new/rebuilt one was installed. I'd have loved talking to him for a few hours to find out more about the plane. WOW! Thank you. That makes sense; just didn't know what it was called. My wife's father flew P-47's with the 8th Airforce. He had a lot of stories! One was at one point, he tangled with a German Messerschmitt and they ended up in some kind of matching ascending spirals. He knew if the German got above him, he was toast. But there they were, climbing. He thought it was "game over." He was a religious man and he claims he heard a voice, "Hit the water, Billy." And he did. And he left the German behind like he was standing still. I heard that story a couple of times. Now I know that was the War Emergency Power (WEP) feature! (He never mentioned having the engine rebuilt.) Actual photo of FIL in the air:  |
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Posted: 5/20/2024 8:21:29 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/20/2024 9:18:49 AM EDT
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PTT on the throttle
cool |
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