Chantry Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 What a great plane 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Imagine one or more of those coming at you with its .50's spouting death and destruction! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 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! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted September 27 Author Share Posted September 27 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stump Water Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stump Water Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 D model 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still hand Bill Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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