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P-47 In action video clip (Well worth watching)

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WAYYYY cool vid. Thanks for posting!

Something about the ungainly old Jug that's ... well ... just kinda purty - I dunno if it's the big 'ol Pratt gnawing it's way through the air, the eight .50 Brownings barking at the bad guys, or the safe landings in planes with holes in the airframe big enough to fly a Mustang through.

Brad
 
Strafing??

They might get upset if I "strafed" at the range.

Do we just post anything on THR anymore?
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I don't know about you, but I get tired of seeing the same old threads over and over again. Everyone once in a while I enjoy seeing something different. Basically a little fresh air if you will.

I thought this was gun related enough to post, but a little different then the main stream posts. There is some very good machine gun work in the video. A few strafs were very accurate and only took a few rounds to accomplish the task.
 
Great stuff. Looks like they shoot down an F6 Hellcat at about 2:17 though.
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Nope- FW190:D An old family friend, RIchard Johnson, flew them in WWII. He said he came back once with a hole at least that big in his wing and didn't realize it until short final... said he had been "A little busy":evil:
 
It always irked me that they show a P-51 attacking the bridge at the end of "Saving Private Ryan." I recently read some notes on the making of the movie and found that they had to use a P-51 because they were unable to find a P-47 in flyable condition. Stephen Ambrose was well aware that it was a historical inaccuracy, but they didn't have a choice.

It's sad and shocking the number of great warbirds that were built during WWII and so few are in flyable condition today.
 
No, we don't just post anything on THR! :D

But having four .50 Brownings in each wing makes the qualification, doesn't it? :D

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Gotta love it. My father-in-law did. Said it was like dancing with a fat girl who could really dance. :D
 
they were unable to find a P-47 in flyable condition.
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Yep, that is sad. They made thousands and not one still flying. You'd figure there would be at least one around somewhere.

I read somewhere that there are only 5-10 P-38s still flyable now a days as well and very few B-29s as well. I remember seeing pictures of all the mothballed planes right after the war. It's a shame they were all turned into scrap.
 
I used to drive thru Millville, in southern New Jersey, where the P-47 pilots were trained during WW2. There is a great mural painted on the side of one of the tallest buildings in town dedicated to all the pilots who trained in and flew the P-47 Thunderbolt.

Every year around May they have a great airshow at the airport - many WW2 aircraft fly in for the event!
 
quote;I don't know about you, but I get tired of seeing the same old threads over and over again. Everyone once in a while I enjoy seeing something different. Basically a little fresh air if you will.

I thought this was gun related enough to post, but a little different then the main stream posts

agreed! Great send thanks.
 
There are still a few P-47s flying in the US, but maybe none in Europe. The Jugs got scrapped very quickly at the end of WWII, and mainly it was Mustangs that stayed in active/reserve service for another decade or so.
 
Yep, that is sad. They made thousands and not one still flying. You'd figure there would be at least one around somewhere.

I read somewhere that there are only 5-10 P-38s still flyable now a days as well and very few B-29s as well. I remember seeing pictures of all the mothballed planes right after the war. It's a shame they were all turned into scrap.
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Like rritter said about the P-47's - none in Europe, darn few in the States. As for the 29's there only one I know of. She's called Fifi and flies with the Confederate Air Force out of Midland, TX. Last time I saw her (about three years ago) they had her down for a complete fuel tank replacement.

And for those of you who insist on calling the CAF by its new bastardized name, well... you can suck lemons. :neener:

Brad
 
What a great video (note there are some other ones there to the right as well)

Note the ground crew guy that had to ride the wing to the take-off point
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Assuming that is because of the limited visibility over the cowling and they didn't want them fishtailing for forward visibiilty
 
I was quite shocked to see a Zero (or at least a mock-up of one) flying over my house a few days ago. I spent about five minutes of my day showing my daughter the big red meatballs on the wings and reminding her of the ones we've seen in the air museums. And envying the guy up there circling around my small town in his ol' warbird.:D
 
As for the 29's there only one I know of.
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I watched a documentary a year or two ago about a B-29 that landed up at the north pole and was abandoned back in the late 40s, early 50s. One guy who was determined to find her put together a group of people to search for her and put together financing. After a LONG search they finally found her. The documentary was based around how long it took them to dig her out and refit her to fly. The first year a huge storm forced them out and it took them months to get back. When they got back they had to dig her out again. This time the guy who started the whole project got sick, but refused to leave and eventually died next to the B-29. After his death someone else from the team took over and made the plane ready to fly.

The day came when it was ready to take off. They started her up and taxied to an air strip that they made. As the engines were reved up a generator in the tail section caught on fire and before they could put out the fire the entire plane was engulfed and it burned to the ground.

It was a very sad moment watching that plane burn. Especially since it cost the original guy his life trying to get her off the glacier.
 
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