P-47 Thunderbolt "No Guts No Glory" at Chino, California

Video is of the former UK-based Republic P-47 "No Guts No Glory" at the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Planes of Fame Museum at Chino, California in Jan., 2007. This aircraft had JUST been sold to a new USA owner by Provenance Fighter Sales. This was a very nice and generous gesture flying "No Guts" for a public flight display. This is typical of the Southern California warbird scene. We locals are very lucky here in SoCal USA!

If you will notice, the idle of the P&W R-2800 engine sounds a little irregular. At the beginning of the startup, it was discovered that the engine had an "oil lock." That means that excess quantities of engine oil had seeped into the lower cylinders. The engine required "pulling through" by the ground crew, i.e. manually rotating the prop to clear some of the trapped oil in the cylinders. I think some of the spark plugs were still fouled during the taxi sequence, resulting in the irregular idle. Steve Hinton obviously cleared the fouling during engine run-up just prior to takeoff.

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[Rammkommando]

7 people were german soldiers who pressed dislike when a p 47 came over head

[moto1p1]

All I can say is, grandpa, you were one lucky sonofabitch!

[16rumpole]

look at the size of the thing, it's freaking huge

[baotmarina]

Chino here I come!

[almirantenegro]

time of war !but good time

[kingharryannis]

I experienced a fly past at the Shuttleworth Air display about 1977 awesome plane roaring thundering engine.

[pramboy09]

@moto1p1 put it this way, i would consider myself lucky and privllaged today to be able to fly a world war 2 aircraft, believe me it would be a dream to step into a spitfire, fw-190,hurricane,mustang, but i think you would struggle to find any pilot in ww2 who thought they were "lucky" to have to do what they did, especially early in the war with the mortality rates of new pilots.

[moto1p1]

@pramboy09 I didn't think of that possibility. I incorrectly assumed your comment was written in a smart a** manner, and replied as such. For that sir, I apologize. I can't begin to imagine how the absolute grotesqueries of war, undoubtedly witnessed most graphically by troops on the ground could negatively affect someone? I knew several men who fought in the ground war who wouldn't speak of it at all. However, growing up racing motocross, and later becoming a skydiving base jumper.

[moto1p1]

@pramboy09 I know the thrill, or rush I got from doing those couldn't hold a candle next to what was, and will always be the baddest ass endeavor, activity, sport in history... Being a WW2 fighter pilot. I can only speak for myself when I say I'd of felt lucky to have been one of those men!!!

[pramboy09]

@moto1p1 my intent was "was he lucky?" to have to fight world war 2? i would call it bad luck to live in a generation that had to go through that, my great uncles fought from 1940-45, he never liked talking about it

[moto1p1]

@pramboy09 Your question doesn't state clearly it's intent... Was he really a WW2 pilot? Or, was he lucky? So I'll answer it both ways. His name was Franklin H. Terrall he flew with the 40th Fighter Squadron of the 35th Fighter Group in the 5th Air force of the U.S. Army Air corps From February 1945 through VJ day; Pacific theater (Obviously) He flew 65 combat missions first 3 in a P-47N followed by 62 in a P-51D.

Lucky??? you godamm right! That's unless you find snowshoeing exiting...

[pramboy09]

@alneal100 no, the malcom hood was not the bubble canopy, it was the same canopy used for the spitfire that was adapted for the P-51 B&C. It was also adapted for other aircraft also. The canopy used later on the spitfire, mustang and thunderbolt had cutdown fuselage adapted for the "bubble canopy" which arrived later in the war.