Although I am a German, I admire this wonderful art of building planes. The P 47 is an amazing example of what people are able to create. Greetings from a Messerschmitt-Fan in Husum, North-Germany
Thanks for the complement. It's unfortunate that these great engineering accomplishments seem to come about mostly in war efforts. I love our American designs. But if us Americans can get our egos out of the way, and pull our heads out of the sand, we can see that the Germans were actually advanced in their aviation engineering and designs. In some ways, way advanced.
@@jimsomers7182 of course, first jet aircraft and Von Braun put Americans on the moon. If they had succeeded in their heavy water experiments..well this world we know would have been entirely different ,not that it's so peachy right now.
Look up Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles on the P-47, he did an excellent several part series on this engineering marvel. I think the Razorback model of the Thunderbolt is the most aesthetically pleasing than the bubble canopy models.
Love the sound of a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 firing up and seeing the engine come to life this engine is what made the thunderbolt,corsair, and hellcat the deadly aircraft they were
She's a butte ! Look at those 8 x .50s on the wings ! Whether your troops needed air support, or rail roads and bridges need straffing, the P-47 mastered its role.
My friend's dad was a crop duster. at the time he had just replaced his radial powered plane with a turbo prop. I remember hearing him start that radial powered plane for its final flight before it was to be sold. The sound of the radial engine, especially these big ones, makes the hairs on my arms stand on end. Amazing sound!!!
Hearing these badass vintage planes firing up their huge horsepower radial engines is music to my ears. You had to have balls to fly these world War I I fighter planes back in the day. These planes were beasts.
What a great engine. I flew the convair 2,3,440 for a few years. I can start a jet engine with two fingers while drinking a cup of coffee, but it took a pilot to start a hot R2800.
Built in Farmingdale Long Island and Evansville Indiana. The American Airpower Museum on New Highway in East Farmingdale has a number of Republic planes on display and is one of the few remaining buildings left of the sprawling Republic plant that covered the property at the north end of Republic Airport.
Anyone who loves This plane MUST read: Thunderbolt: Memoirs Of A World War 2 Fighter Pilot, by Marvin Bledsoe. So well written, he "puts you in the cockpit" of one of these MAGNIFICENT warbirds during combat missions ! Big SALUTE !
Yes it took 5 gallons to fire up. It was essentially the same engine used in the bombers and the F 6 but was supercharged to go higher than the F 6 needed to. Bang for the buck the best fighter of the war. The Germans had the best plane in the FW at the end but it was an interceptor and pure high altitude fighter. Thee P 47 was geting dated but used at low level it packed a heavyweight punch and more men survived the war flying them than any other. We aren't looking at F 1 racers. We are looking at weapons delivery machines/ bang for the buck.
i read a story somewhere that when German aviation engine engineers got a hold of a R2800 from a downed P47, they knew they'd lost the war. The engine was so powerful and perfect yet so simple in design and manufacturing they were quite literally astounded.
Jan Rutten Well Jan; this is a difficult conundrum for me....a Harley has a sound like no other...I think they even have a patent on it's sound. I was never lucky enough to own a Harley...I did have a couple of Triumphs and a Kawasaki 750....but never the Icon of Motor cycles. But I regress; nothing beats the sounds, the smells and the sight of smoke belching out of the radial engine in the P-47 Thunderbolt...what a name, what a plane!
I love that powerful radial engine,it sounds good starting,running,and turned off! This is the largest and heaviest WW2 fighter,that packed a good punch!
We had a training field in South New Jersey. In amongst thick pines. Stories of Jugs crashing into the woods, taking fat pines down and the pilot walking away. They pulled one out of a lake decades ago and it’s in a museum there now.
Nothing can beat the sound of those old 18 cylinder round engines! It kinda looks like the pilot almost lost it when he spun that jug around on his final maneuver. Great video!
Absolutely superb! The sound of American military history! This C model "Razorback" is painted in the early wartime colors of the 56th FG, and specifically, the aircraft of WW2 ace and legendary fighter pilot Capt. Walker "Bud" Mahurin!
When I win big one day, the first thing I'll buy is a Spitfire MK.9 (My aviation loving British blood demands it) the second thing I'll buy is one of these! What an amazing aircraft... And thank you very much for the video, have a like from me.
***** I saw this earlier funnily enough, I think it's a case of if you have to ask for the price... You can't afford it ;) Unfortunately I still haven't won big yet, but I'm working on it..
The clanking sounds on shutdown are the counterweights on the crankshaft. Unlike car/truck engines these balance weights have four holes bored crossways through them. The crank itself has four enormously sturdy sideways-projecting short pins that are smaller diameter than the holes. It makes a system - that when the crankshaft is stationary with the crankpin uppermost - that if the weight tries to "outrun" or "lag behind" the crank then it is forced to become closer to the center rotational axis of the spinning shaft. So they are called "pendulum weights". And when the shaft is merely smoothly spinning rapidly they do nothing at all. But when the big pistons run up on compression and slow the crank down, then instantly each is fired in turn and try to speed the shaft up - the huge centrifugal force on the weights is harnessed to instantly oppose unsteady motion. Pendulum Counterweights are only necessary on engines that are rigidly coupled to a very heavy rotating mass (flywheel or propeller) and they serve to control the "whip" of the crankshaft-end that is NOT connected to the rotating mass. So you can only hear them clank as the engine approaches a stop and they no longer have enough centrifugal force to keep them "hanging" on their pins in defiance of gravity as the crankshaft's crankpin goes upside down.
just stumbled across this Wonderful sound from the "Klunk" of the starting pawl engaging to the whine of the inertia starter to the rough running at idle to the smooth taxi to the clacking of the valves on engine shutdown! Nothing, but Nuthin', could outmaneuver a -47 at altitude and if the bad guy tried to dive away, he was dead - he just hadn't stopped breathing yet. Those 8 (Count'em, Eight) 50 calibers and 400+ rounds a gun made it a ferocious opponent. If you want to fly something sexy, fly a -51, its a dream; light control touch, superb fuel economy, and that marvelous Merlin made it a delight to fly. If you want to get home, fly a -47! The -47's record as fighter, fighter-bomber, and close air support is superb and its reputation for ruggedness unparalleled. Ask the guy who landed one in the second floor of a factory. (Don't ask, I don't know either...) But there are photos of the guy who hit a telephone pole( the telephone pole lost...) and the guy who hit a chimney (I don't know if the chimney lost but the guy got the -47 home...) It was an easy airplane to fly and it was easy, I mean Easy to make a good, I mean a Good Jug pilot. With higher fuel consumption, lower rate of acceleration and rate-of-climb, it still was a wonderful airplane built by a company whose reputation for rugged airplanes extends to the A10 Warthog today. Too bad that Republic isn't still around...
Superbe avion de chasse et l'un des 3 plus beaux avec le "F4U "Corsair" et le P51 "Mustang". Quel bruit magnifique de ce moteur en étoile, le plus gros en cylindrée, juste devant le fabuleux "Corsair". Les P47 et F4U sont beaucoup plus attrayants avec leurs verrières "goutte d'eau".
You got that right my friend. That's all i would ever want to do is imagine that scenario. That beast was responsible for many ruined pairs of skivvy shorts in its day.
I pilot german planes on WarThunder, and having a P-47 on your six is a freaking nightmare, you're lucky if you can get him off your tail before he shreds your wings!
Not your 6.. he would be coming in from high above doing 200 mph faster than you and shredding you with those 8 50 Cal guns.. (about 6400 rounds per minute rate of fire) which is twice the rate of fire of a modern CIWS Block 0/1 the US Navy uses for self defense on it's warships)
they rarely get me from above, but from below or in a chase. As they aim at me when I'm turning or climbing. my only hope is hit the flaps and the rudder and hope he get's off my tail before a Spitfire joins the hunt.
Absolutely fantastic.The turn at the end, well quite hard for the landing gear structure but bad ass looking. I only wonder whether the huge Turbo blower is still in there in the trail and working.
I don't think it was that taxing if at all on the landing gear, as the plane turned relatively close to its center of mass (left wheel goes a bit in reverse).
The older razorback like this one was actually slightly faster that the later bubble canopy. These routinely tooks hits from 20mm and 37mm AA and came back.
Amazing! my daughter has a bike with a V4, and it sounds fantastic, but this takes second place to NO other! Also, its the old Razorback! Shame he didnt rev 'er up for a take off; THAT would be awesome!
hey I agree with ya buddy...a 2800hp Pratt & Whitney motor is the pinnacle of mean and bad ass!!....beautiful sounding motor...dude's got his P-47 right!...
Would like to see a side by side size comparison between a Thunderbolt and a Zero. Those two has got to have the biggest size difference for WW2 fighters.
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Grandpa was a P-47 crew chief and would tell me stories of how incredible tough this plane was.
Miss him so much.
My father flew 102 missions over France in that airplane. (366 FS- 358 FG).
Mine was with the 367th "Casket Gang"
Right on jug driver!!!!!
Takes a brave man to fly a thunderbolt on attack runs, you should be proud of him
Badass
Nice ! I would take her over a Mustang all day long just a brute.
Although I am a German, I admire this wonderful art of building planes. The P 47 is an amazing example of what people are able to create.
Greetings from a Messerschmitt-Fan in Husum, North-Germany
Thanks for the complement. It's unfortunate that these great engineering accomplishments seem to come about mostly in war efforts. I love our American designs. But if us Americans can get our egos out of the way, and pull our heads out of the sand, we can see that the Germans were actually advanced in their aviation engineering and designs. In some ways, way advanced.
Greetings back from a Yank and a P-47 fan, I must admit Fw-190 ain't to shabby.
@@jimsomers7182 every supersonic plane flying to today can thank the Germans for the delta wing.
@@jimsomers7182 of course, first jet aircraft and Von Braun put Americans on the moon. If they had succeeded in their heavy water experiments..well this world we know would have been entirely different ,not that it's so peachy right now.
Look up Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles on the P-47, he did an excellent several part series on this engineering marvel. I think the Razorback model of the Thunderbolt is the most aesthetically pleasing than the bubble canopy models.
Love the sound of a Pratt and Whitney R-2800 firing up and seeing the engine come to life this engine is what made the thunderbolt,corsair, and hellcat the deadly aircraft they were
Here in the UK people talk about the Merlin engine and how good it was. I always tell them the best engine of WW2 was the PW2800
@@alanmountain5804to each their own, each engine did their job well, thats for sure.
We are a blessed generation to still be able to experience this!
Amen!
She's a butte ! Look at those 8 x .50s on the wings ! Whether your troops needed air support, or rail roads and bridges need straffing, the P-47 mastered its role.
A good one second burst into an enemy plane was good for 15 pounds of lead into a target
The “jug” was such a beautiful plane
Wings and tail of a Spitfire, the fuselage of an F6F Hellcat, the engine of the Corsair and the fire power of a fricking tank all in one.
@@PiotrBarcz so basically tail and wing of a snake, fuselage of a tiger and a engine of a flying tank? Holy shit........
@@bobuboi4643 Yup
@@bobuboi4643 let's not forget the 8 .50 cals and the armor plates
Ahhhh! The sweet music of a BIG radial. Got a love Pratt & Whitney!
The big 18 cylinder Wright turbo-compound also music to my ears.
My friend's dad was a crop duster. at the time he had just replaced his radial powered plane with a turbo prop. I remember hearing him start that radial powered plane for its final flight before it was to be sold. The sound of the radial engine, especially these big ones, makes the hairs on my arms stand on end. Amazing sound!!!
Nothing prettier than the sound of a radial aircraft engine regardless of its size.
Hearing these badass vintage planes firing up their huge horsepower radial engines is music to my ears. You had to have balls to fly these world War I I fighter planes back in the day. These planes were beasts.
Äldre damer
P-47 start-up makes a top-fuel dragster sound a bit anemic. And, it's just idling.
My father was a P-47 pilot "The Mole" 1944 shot down by the germans but lived to tell the story. Great air plane.
Carol Hoag
What fighter group did he operate with?
Your father is a hero
and the one who shot him down also ^^
@@neinnein9306 no
Love how the little Bird Dog at 1:54 has sharks teeth. Makes it look really fearsome.
What a great engine. I flew the convair 2,3,440 for a few years. I can start a jet engine with two fingers while drinking a cup of coffee, but it took a pilot to start a hot R2800.
Grande máquina voadora, excelente vídeo. Toda máquina voadora é fascinante, desde um simples avião de papel até a complexidade de um UFO.
what's there not to like in this video? It's excellent!! Now I want to see it fly! My uncle flew P-47's in WW-2. He then flew the F-86 in Korea.
To short....................
The P-47 Razorback Jug is a classic! 🇺🇸
Built in Farmingdale Long Island and Evansville Indiana. The American Airpower Museum on New Highway in East Farmingdale has a number of Republic planes on display and is one of the few remaining buildings left of the sprawling Republic plant that covered the property at the north end of Republic Airport.
Beautifull Aircraft and beautifull sounds for engine.. thanks for upload this video
The best music for my ears...""
Nice Thunderbolt well filmed. Cool motor sound. Thumbs up! :)
Anyone who loves This plane MUST read: Thunderbolt: Memoirs Of A World War 2 Fighter Pilot, by Marvin Bledsoe. So well written, he "puts you in the cockpit" of one of these MAGNIFICENT warbirds during combat missions ! Big SALUTE !
Excellent! Excellent! Two excellents because I watched and listened twice. Thanks
What a beautiful thing , ThanksI´m glad they have more modern engines , but I miss this sound.
I was also there with my son on Saturday. There's nothing like watching a radial fire-up and, in particular, in a P-47. Thanks for uploading a video.
Lovely video of the lovely p-47 , the razorback is my favorite p-47 ☺
One of my favorite warbirds right next to the Spitfire, Corsair, P-36, Polikarpov I-16, Pe-8, B-17 and Halifax.
Awesome! Very skillful handling of a fine old bird. Yours, Bill.
That is a beautifully restored aircraft. Hats off to the rebuilders.
I never get tired of watching this
Warms the heart to hear those big girls turn!
That was cool. Let's all keep our fingers crossed that the flying season isn't scrapped. As it's the high light for so many of us during the Summer.
What an amazing era to be a pilot!
saw one up close years ago. Was amazed how big the plane was. And that sound when running............wow.
I dig the sound of these big radial engines--you gotta love the Jug!
Specifications (P-47D):
Engine: 2535hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59W Double Wasp radial piston engine
Weight: Empty 9,950 lbs., Maximum Takeoff 17,500 lbs.
Wing Span: 40ft. 9.25in.
Length: 36ft. 1.75in.
Height: 14ft. 8in.
Performance:
Maximum Speed: 433 mph
Ceiling: 41,000 ft.
Range: 1900 miles with drop tanks
Armament:
Eight 12.7mm (0.5 in.) wing-mounted machine guns
Up to 2500 lbs. of externally-mounted bombs, rockets, or other free-fall ordinanceNumber Built: 15,677Number Still Airworthy: 9
Great looking footage. Beautiful aircraft
1 gallon, 2 gallons, 3 gallons, 4 gallons...
hovanti
2,000 HP don't come cheap.
What are gallons? Lol
Well pal, during take-off, that brick weighted almost 8 tons, you need something powerful to push that ass in the air.
Yes it took 5 gallons to fire up. It was essentially the same engine used in the bombers and the F 6 but was supercharged to go higher than the F 6 needed to. Bang for the buck the best fighter of the war. The Germans had the best plane in the FW at the end but it was an interceptor and pure high altitude fighter. Thee P 47 was geting dated but used at low level it packed a heavyweight punch and more men survived the war flying them than any other. We aren't looking at F 1 racers. We are looking at weapons delivery machines/ bang for the buck.
i read a story somewhere that when German aviation engine engineers got a hold of a R2800 from a downed P47, they knew they'd lost the war. The engine was so powerful and perfect yet so simple in design and manufacturing they were quite literally astounded.
This engine sounds better than any Harley Davidson or any V8 could ever hope to sound
it's an 18 cylinder radial
You are so right....it's almost orgasmic!
Rod taylor
wesley hill
Jan Rutten Well Jan; this is a difficult conundrum for me....a Harley has a sound like no other...I think they even have a patent on it's sound. I was never lucky enough to own a Harley...I did have a couple of Triumphs and a Kawasaki 750....but never the Icon of Motor cycles. But I regress; nothing beats the sounds, the smells and the sight of smoke belching out of the radial engine in the P-47 Thunderbolt...what a name, what a plane!
Very good video and congratulations for the work at the museum. Saludos
I love that powerful radial engine,it sounds good starting,running,and turned off! This is the largest and
heaviest WW2 fighter,that
packed a good punch!
Can you imagine being A 21 year old pilot in the seat of this beauty every day? Thanks to you all WWII veterans.
This machine along with the Wildcat, corsair, P38 and mustang were incredible machines. Demonstrating American ability to the world in that time.
Wow what a beautiful sound!
Glorious, simply glorious! Thought, though, that he was gonna scrub the tire off the left gear whe he started to taxi.
Nice video ,I love the p-47 so much ,brilent warbird plane ☺
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BEAUTIFUL! Much as I love the Mustang, I would also love to see more Thunderbolts! *LET'S HAVE **_MORE JUGS!!!_*
Beautiful engine sound music for my ears
Why would someone give this thumbs down. The sound of freedom!!!
What a great sound! Is this out at the museum in Chino? And a nice spin to boot.
Thanks! I'll add that to the description.
We had a training field in South New Jersey. In amongst thick pines. Stories of Jugs crashing into the woods, taking fat pines down and the pilot walking away. They pulled one out of a lake decades ago and it’s in a museum there now.
Nothing can beat the sound of those old 18 cylinder round engines! It kinda looks like the pilot almost lost it when he spun that jug around on his final maneuver. Great video!
heffo and juff he wanted to keep going
What a magnificent piece of machinery!!! Just awesome!!!
BTW... that little Cessna with the sharks mouth @ 1:55 is having delusions of grandeur lol
Looks like a typical Vietnam era Bird Dog paint scheme to me?
Definitely an L-19, but not exactly typical
The Cessna knows what he wants to be when he grows up.
Red 5 So?
Red 5 yeah man !
Absolutely superb! The sound of American military history! This C model "Razorback" is painted in the early wartime colors of the 56th FG, and specifically, the aircraft of WW2 ace and legendary fighter pilot Capt. Walker "Bud" Mahurin!
New pilot. Got to the threshold and throttled up,had to come back for fresh shorts!!
When I win big one day, the first thing I'll buy is a Spitfire MK.9 (My aviation loving British blood demands it) the second thing I'll buy is one of these! What an amazing aircraft... And thank you very much for the video, have a like from me.
*****
I saw this earlier funnily enough, I think it's a case of if you have to ask for the price... You can't afford it ;) Unfortunately I still haven't won big yet, but I'm working on it..
A thing of beauty and sound!
I love the mechanical clicking at the end so much!
Btw, this is in the markings of the a/c modelled by Airfix some years back.
Love how it just starts right up as if it's ready for war again
She looks amazing!!
The clanking sounds on shutdown are the counterweights on the crankshaft. Unlike car/truck engines these balance weights have four holes bored crossways through them. The crank itself has four enormously sturdy sideways-projecting short pins that are smaller diameter than the holes. It makes a system - that when the crankshaft is stationary with the crankpin uppermost - that if the weight tries to "outrun" or "lag behind" the crank then it is forced to become closer to the center rotational axis of the spinning shaft. So they are called "pendulum weights". And when the shaft is merely smoothly spinning rapidly they do nothing at all. But when the big pistons run up on compression and slow the crank down, then instantly each is fired in turn and try to speed the shaft up - the huge centrifugal force on the weights is harnessed to instantly oppose unsteady motion. Pendulum Counterweights are only necessary on engines that are rigidly coupled to a very heavy rotating mass (flywheel or propeller) and they serve to control the "whip" of the crankshaft-end that is NOT connected to the rotating mass.
So you can only hear them clank as the engine approaches a stop and they no longer have enough centrifugal force to keep them "hanging" on their pins in defiance of gravity as the crankshaft's crankpin goes upside down.
What a magnificent beast!
When starting why does it drool fuel out of the exaust right before it fires up? Beutiful radial engine sound. Thanks for the video
Absolutely beautiful.
OUTSTANDING !!! At least 3 eargasms on that one.
A beautiful symphony!
Fantastic sound!
I wonder where you get a new distributor cap for your P47 Thunderbolt.
This is in my top 3 favorite planes
(1: P-47 Thunderbolt, P-40 Warhawk, Hurricane)
just stumbled across this Wonderful sound from the "Klunk" of the starting pawl engaging to the whine of the inertia starter to the rough running at idle to the smooth taxi to the clacking of the valves on engine shutdown! Nothing, but Nuthin', could outmaneuver a -47 at altitude and if the bad guy tried to dive away, he was dead - he just hadn't stopped breathing yet. Those 8 (Count'em, Eight) 50 calibers and 400+ rounds a gun made it a ferocious opponent.
If you want to fly something sexy, fly a -51, its a dream; light control touch, superb fuel economy, and that marvelous Merlin made it a delight to fly. If you want to get home, fly a -47!
The -47's record as fighter, fighter-bomber, and close air support is superb and its reputation for ruggedness unparalleled. Ask the guy who landed one in the second floor of a factory. (Don't ask, I don't know either...) But there are photos of the guy who hit a telephone pole( the telephone pole lost...) and the guy who hit a chimney (I don't know if the chimney lost but the guy got the -47 home...)
It was an easy airplane to fly and it was easy, I mean Easy to make a good, I mean a Good Jug pilot.
With higher fuel consumption, lower rate of acceleration and rate-of-climb, it still was a wonderful airplane built by a company whose reputation for rugged airplanes extends to the A10 Warthog today. Too bad that Republic isn't still around...
Whats more amazing are the people who built these great aircraft and the values and virtues they possessed.
They were russian immigrants
EJ205T
Pffffttt..and the dream was over..
Just what you said,you got it so right mate.
Evansville Indiana.
Superbe avion de chasse et l'un des 3 plus beaux avec le "F4U "Corsair" et le P51 "Mustang". Quel bruit magnifique de ce moteur en étoile, le plus gros en cylindrée, juste devant le fabuleux "Corsair". Les P47 et F4U sont beaucoup plus attrayants avec leurs verrières "goutte d'eau".
Took it for a spin around the block, eh? Just look at those eight 50 cals. Now imagine he's on your six.
You got that right my friend. That's all i would ever want to do is imagine that scenario. That beast was responsible for many ruined pairs of skivvy shorts in its day.
I pilot german planes on WarThunder, and having a P-47 on your six is a freaking nightmare, you're lucky if you can get him off your tail before he shreds your wings!
Not your 6.. he would be coming in from high above doing 200 mph faster than you and shredding you with those 8 50 Cal guns.. (about 6400 rounds per minute rate of fire) which is twice the rate of fire of a modern CIWS Block 0/1 the US Navy uses for self defense on it's warships)
they rarely get me from above, but from below or in a chase. As they aim at me when I'm turning or climbing. my only hope is hit the flaps and the rudder and hope he get's off my tail before a Spitfire joins the hunt.
maybe only a few pilots actually know how to boom´n zoom against a Fw190 A4, as I've managed to out-turn a few P-47s
Just visited the crash site of one of these it difficult to relate the smashed parts to the plane they once were , this video is perfect
Absolutely fantastic.The turn at the end, well quite hard for the landing gear structure but bad ass looking. I only wonder whether the huge Turbo blower is still in there in the trail and working.
I don't think it was that taxing if at all on the landing gear, as the plane turned relatively close to its center of mass (left wheel goes a bit in reverse).
The older razorback like this one was actually slightly faster that the later bubble canopy. These routinely tooks hits from 20mm and 37mm AA and came back.
incredible vid thanks for sharing
What a fantastic plane.Such a great sound.
Sounds like freedom to me! Awesome post!
Such a beautiful sound.
simply beautiful!!!
Alexandre Jobi po
The 47 is a beautiful beast.
That is the real Jersey Tough Guy right there...
The era of beautiful aircraft
Amazing! my daughter has a bike with a V4, and it sounds fantastic, but this takes second place to NO other! Also, its the old Razorback! Shame he didnt rev 'er up for a take off; THAT would be awesome!
That plane is stunning
omg i love this airplane soo much
She was restored at Duxford. I wish she could've stayed long enough to display at least once!
Gotta love that Pratt and Whitney... What a sweet plane.
Absolutely love the plane!
Best aircraft ever! I just finished The Revell 1/48 scale The Bug. Next will a 1/32 of Gabby Gabreskis Jug..
What a beautiful machine
Nothing like the sound of a big radial!
For anyone is southern california I suggest you visit this museum.
hey I agree with ya buddy...a 2800hp Pratt & Whitney motor is the pinnacle of mean and bad ass!!....beautiful sounding motor...dude's got his P-47 right!...
Super vid. Thanks all 👍
what a beautiful machine
Would like to see a side by side size comparison between a Thunderbolt and a Zero. Those two has got to have the biggest size difference for WW2 fighters.
Hey I was just there last week for their corsair flight!