Republic P-47 Thunderbolt by goodoleboy
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Captured back on 4/4/09, at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California.
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry five-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 pounds (1,103 kg). When fully loaded the P-47 weighed up to eight tons making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war. The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine which was also used by two U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific theaters.
The P-47 was one of the main United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) fighters of World War II, and served with Allied air forces including France, Britain, and Russia. Mexican and Brazilian squadrons fighting alongside the U.S. also flew the P-47.
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Comments (8)
Faemike55
wicked photos and cool postwork - the information is always fun to read
eekdog
Great info and collage.
FurNose
Though the P-47 didn't have those "long legs" the P-51 had and though it couldn't compete with the P-51 speedwise (except in a dive, where the high weight of the P-47 became very handy
), and though the P-47 wasn't nearly as sleek, aerodynamic and beautiful as the P-51, it was rugged and sturdy and could stand a heck of enemy fire and still make it home - where the P-51 with its liquid cooled engine was very prone of getting the cooling system damaged and wouldn't make it home with the overheated engine. A precise rifle shot could therefore down the P-51, were as there are stories that a particular P-47 made it home with severe hits of a 20mm canon in the engine…!
starship64 Online Now!
What a beautiful old warbird.
Wolfenshire Online Now!
It must have been something to fly those.
RodS Online Now!
The good old "Jug." That thing was a flying tank. Like the pink bunny,it just kept going and going..
Great captures of this classic.
helanker
Excellent Plane shots, Harry :)
anahata.c
love to read commenters who know these planes---Rod seems to know it well; and furnose has a lot to say about it. (I confess I don't understand most of what he wrote, but as I've never flown a plane, that's understandable.)
This is one formidable plane. The top shot captures its big fat bulbous form, as well as its sheen. And I think your extra floor in front helps balance out the massivity of this bear of a plane. The second shot has so much more contrast, with those dark grays and bright yellows---if this is from your postwork, kudos. Really popping contrasts. (And a shiny yellow-green floor.)
The bottom has more the texture of newsprint; and feels 'documentary' in nature. As for the pov, it's a jaw-dropping devouring shot, with the front engine just gaping, and the propellors really fierce. A formidable angle. Rod calls it "that old 'jug'...a flying tank." Indeed. I can understand how it held such big bombs. Love the captures and the info.