P-47 Thunderbolt

A p-47 thunderbolt taking off in Sevierville, Tennessee. My appologies for the focus shifting, it was hard enough just keeping the p-47 in frame, heh.

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[243rem]

where do people find these old warbirds? Nothing in civil aviation comes close to the sound, look, and power of one of these old warbirds.

[sirpete]

Just tell him 1:1 and let him figure out. :)

[ryanlikesdietcoke]

one of my fav planes

[almirantenegro]

this sound is music !!!!!!!!!!!

[riderpoet]

@243rem From what I've read, almost all of the P-47s still flying in the world today (approximately 5 or 6) were sold to various South American countries after WWII, and were used up until the 1970's in some cases by those countries. The Argentinian Air Force comes to mind, and also I believe Bolivia. A fully restored P-47D is worth between $2M and $3M, and that's just to get your name on the title. After that, there is highly specialized and expensive maintenance, plus tons of $4/gallon gas.

[lefdepord]

@336kgf Seig Heil!!!

[336kgf]

@HermannWillie90 Uh...YEAH...America is a pitiful country who kicked your asses completely in WW2 and damn near did the same thing in WW1. Plus, if it wasn't for the efforts of NATO (which INCLUDED West Germany, I might add), Deutschland would pretty much be communist to this day. Nice try. You want to know the reason why American planes were so big? So they could absorb punishment and keep flying.  DAH.

[datzfast]

@HermannWillie90 i recall the german women loved fat american cock durring the war, hell, sonny, you might be an america yourself. ya little bastard.

[XCougar85X]

Nice takeoff. Looks like he runs the mixture a little rich with all that white smoke :)

[SprecheDeutsch]

@skippydeenice lol he's either not a real German, or he's one of the neo nazis from Bayern that are too stupid to know how to open a door. Everyone in Germany knows that the USAAF and its allied air forces were one of the main reasons the allies were able to stampede through western Europe so swiftly. After all, it's mainly Germany's loss of resources which lost them the war, and destroying such things is the Air Force's specialty.

[Crimble67]

@HermannWillie90 Jawohl Herr Oberst! übrigens, Das P-47 war so dick damit es viele Treffer von der Flakgeschütze aufnehmen könnte und immer noch in der Luft bleiben. Und dazu hat's bestanden!