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utee94 · « **Reply #2562 on:** August 19, 2021, 12:16:05 PM »

now I'm hungry

CWSooner · « **Reply #2563 on:** August 19, 2021, 01:31:03 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 19, 2021, 11:18:24 AM

Facebook says this would have been Big Matt's 50th Birthday

RIP brother

Rest in peace, LBM.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #2564 on:** August 19, 2021, 09:11:18 PM »

We had Fox Bros. takeout for dinner.

I thought about LBM and some of his stories in Athens.

Thumper · « **Reply #2565 on:** August 20, 2021, 04:29:04 PM »

I came across this a couple of days ago and it reminded me of our Fiero chat.

This one is for sale on Bring a Trailer. It has a supercharged 350 chevy engine with the 5 speed Getrag trans. Comes with a mini me go cart.

FearlessF · « **Reply #2566 on:** August 20, 2021, 04:38:04 PM »

I'm a fan of V8's but I don't want one of those

especially in white

Cincydawg · « **Reply #2567 on:** August 20, 2021, 05:32:56 PM »

I like a good in line Six, BMW makes a honey, it makes nice sounds and goes fast.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #2568 on:** August 21, 2021, 03:37:26 PM »

P-47 cockpit.

I'm impressed we could train pilots as fast as we did in WW Two. You first had to learn some basics in a Stearman or eq and then graduate to "complex trainers" with variable pitch props and manifold pressure, and then at some point into this. And, you needed to be able to fly it in "unusual attitudes" and high speed. I can make out some of the guages and instrumentation. I'm not sure where the throttle is, maybe that cylinder on the left? Or is that to lock the canopy?

CWSooner · « **Reply #2569 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:00:54 PM »

I love P-47s! That's a P-47D-25 model or later. The windscreen/bulletproof glass arrangement changed at that point when Republic went from a razorback upper-rear fuselage to a bubble canopy.

The gray cylinder on the left is indeed the throttle. The red ball you can see at the base of it is the mixture control.

There's a Youtube channel called Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles. I think he's got 5 or 6 hour-long shows on the P-47.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #2570 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:35:59 PM »

could the P47 be used as a carrier fighter or strictly land

CWSooner · « **Reply #2571 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:46:32 PM »

Land-based only.

The F4U Corsair was carrier-based. It had the same basic engine (the Pratt & Whitney R-2800) as the P-47, minus the turbocharging for high-altitude performance. It wasn't a high-altitude, long-range escort fighter, but other than that it could do most of the things that the P-47 could.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #2572 on:** August 21, 2021, 05:56:27 PM »

In Europe when the P-47 could stay with the bombers all the way to their targets the tide of the air war changed by a lot

CWSooner · « **Reply #2573 on:** August 21, 2021, 06:21:39 PM »

By the time that the AAF managed to get drop tanks for P-47s, Mustangs were starting to take over the long-range escort mission. But the great 56th Fighter Group, "Zemke's Wolfpack," with aces like Francis Gabreski and Robert Johnson, stayed with Thunderbolts all the way to the end of the war.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #2574 on:** August 21, 2021, 06:26:43 PM »

Quote from: CWSooner on August 21, 2021, 06:21:39 PM

By the time that the AAF managed to get drop tanks for P-47s, Mustangs were starting to take over the long-range escort mission. But the great 56th Fighter Group, "Zemke's Wolfpack," with aces like Francis Gabreski and Robert Johnson, stayed with Thunderbolts all the way to the end of the war.

yep I got the p 47 mixed up with the p 51

utee94 · « **Reply #2575 on:** August 21, 2021, 06:32:11 PM »

Well that was a fine aircraft too!

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