I reserve the right to delete patently offensive comments. Or, really, any comment I feel like. Or I might leave a really juicy comment up for private ridicule. Also spammers.
You can always offend hippies in the comment section. Chances are, those will be held up as a proper example...
I'd like to see how a Brewster F2A fits inside the P-47.
ReplyDeleteAnd TOUGH bones too... Anything that can knock down a brick chimney and keep flying is pretty tough...
ReplyDeleteThe P-47D-25 was the fastest piston engine plane of WW2 despite its size.
ReplyDeleteAnd never forget that one of the highest scoring aces flew one.
Gabby Gabreski !!!!!! Believe he score well in the F-86 over Korea too.
ReplyDeleteSmall wonder that the Spit pilots said that taking evasive action in a P-47 consisted of running about the fuselage!
ReplyDeleteJohn of the GMA
There's a movie about WW2 flight operatons in a Jug squardon. Can't remember the name. But there's a lot of color footage of P-47's, and they are BIG.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrn2af_p-47-thunderbolt-squadron-in-italy-in-1944_shortfilms
ReplyDeleteJohn of the GMA
"Thunderbolt"
ReplyDeleteLook at that poster i had a song go through my head.
ReplyDelete"Jug, Jug, Jug, Jug da Jug, Jug da jug!" to the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Looks like you could mount Spitfires to the hardpoints and deploy them like AIM-7s. . .