P-47 Razorback Thunderbolt Aerobatics - EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023

[Chantry]

What a great plane

 

 

[Trailrider #896]

Imagine one or more of those coming at you with its .50's spouting death and destruction! 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Must be 20 years now,  but a pair of them were at the Pacific Coast Air Museum airshow in Santa Rosa.   I went to see them.   HUGE they are.  Just saw them on the ground.  A couple of hours after I  got home I heard a rumble and ran outside.  Probably half a mile away and between 500 and 700 feet, headed SSE.  Probably cruising along at 200 mph.  Came right over the house  

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I never thought of "jugs" as aerobatic.  They just seem too big for that definition.  They darn sure ain't "dainty".

 

They played hell in Europe, blowing up and / or shooting up trains, convoys, artillery and tanks, anti-aircraft, airfields, and other stuff on the ground.  Germany hated them.  (Might have done something similar in the Pacific but I never heard of them being used there.)

 

They had a couple show up at airshow in Chino and they seemed to be as big as TBF Avengers.  HUGE!

[Chantry]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I never thought of "jugs" as aerobatic.  They just seem too big for that definition.  They darn sure ain't "dainty".

 

They played hell in Europe, blowing up and / or shooting up trains, convoys, artillery and tanks, anti-aircraft, airfields, and other stuff on the ground.  Germany hated them.  (Might have done something similar in the Pacific but I never heard of them being used there.)

 

They had a couple show up at airshow in Chino and they seemed to be as big as TBF Avengers.  HUGE!

 

P-47's served in the Pacific with the Army Air Corps, mostly in the Southwest Pacific under MacArthur, as well as bomber escorts (P-47N) over Japan.

[Stump Water]

The Jugs didn't get the "glory" that other US airframes like the P-51 & F4U did. 

 

But if you've know even a little bit about air power in WWII... you know.

[Stump Water]

D model

 

 

[Still hand Bill]

There is an operational one at the ww2 air museum in Colorado Springs.  They are planning a restoration of a second one.  As others have mentioned they are big compared to other ww2 fighters.  
 

I found the super/turbo charging makes them quieter than a p51 or F7.  P51’s are not very cool sounding at idle/taxi speeds, but at full song are amazing.  F7’s sound great even at idle.  My distillery was right across the parking lot from the museum and I would hear them do run ups pretty regularly.  Little Crow (Jack roush’s p51) was there for a few weeks and they flew it quite a bit.  They used to chase it with a Lear jet, I assume so people could watch it fly.