Rare Seversky AT-12 - Direct Ancestor of the P-47 Thunderbolt !

[Treetop64]

Actually, the P-43 Lancer is the direct predecessor of the P-47.  The Seversky AT-12 is the predecessor of the P-35.

So: AT-12 --> P-35 --> P-43 --> P-47. :)

[bompiberlot]

There is not any Seversky P-35 in the world?

[GRRXtreme]

@bompiberlot I am pretty sure there is a Seversky P-35 at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio!

[granskare]

I have an av mag showing this type of machine being demod in the UK and getting banged up...

[Greenhornet270]

2 seater P-35! Beautiful ship!!

[SgtGrant23]

does it have a wright r-1830?

[octane130]

@SgtGrant23 This aircraft has a Pratt & Whitney R-1830 engine.

[SgtGrant23]

@octane130 nothing better than a R-1830.

[hamatoli]

This aircraft is not a japp survivor.

It was orderd by the swedish airforce as a Divebomber/lightbomber ,52 was orderd but only 2 was deliverd the rest stayed in US as trainers .

[BKrystall]

only one of a kind in the world. very rare airplane.

[apatheticempathy]

shes a beauty. How many survive ? history?

I'd really love to see the ww2 japan surviving aircraft. They seem never to get enough coverage. any leads ?

[juzzi07]

y'know...i love your video's they're awesome and you're always super correct technically in your descriptors - but in this case i had to make a correction.

It just didn't sound like the R-1820. And the cowl suggested a 'DC-3' shape....or Twin Wasp look.

The firing pattern didn't sound like the 'Harley Davidson-esque' R-1820...

so i had to do some research.

It's an R-1830-45...without turbosuperchargers and the like to 'cool' the sound.

[octane130]

juzzi07: You are absolutely correct, the engine is a 14-cylinder, Pratt & Whitney R-1830. Thanks! The unturbocharged, staccato sound threw me off. Models of this type of plane also did use the 9-cylinder Wright R-1820. It is not often you hear an R-1830 without the muffling effect of an exhaust-driven turbocharger (such as on a B-24). This engine displays a data plate that says: "U.S. Air Force Type R-1830 92" plus the serial number. That's all. Thanks again!

[juzzi07]

no probs i was put off by the note too. There's so many variants of the R-1830 out there...i'm in Australia and we have a few restored CAC Boomerang fighters - complete with an R-1830 mated to a huge supercharger (it howls) and porcupine exhaust stacks. Once again...the sound changes completely!

[juzzi07]

that's an unusual engine note - what kind of engine did it run?

[octane130]

My previous, erroneous comment as to the engine type has been deleted. As juzzi07 says below, the engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1830.

[Anacinc]

Nice! From this predecessor of the thunderbolt One can actually see the P47 lines in this pre war design.

[DrHoldowicz]

Mmmm, what a magnificent airplane -how good does it look in that pre-war bare metal and USAAF markings?

And that lumpy radial sound is like music..

[thnksno]

Schweet!

[BADALASS]

@thnksno Not bad for a guy with a false leg!