 acquainted with people but from golfers you pilots can get a serious lesson if I ain't your personal take this for instance the first rule is keep your eye on the ball how many of you is looking at the ball you said it me neither but in golf there are certain things you've got to do the same way every time first you've got to get the ship twin for a zoom down the runway towel flap open landing gear resting firmly on the ground the stick is eased well back until a stall occurs now full throttle and the maneuver is completed with a normal loop for you newcomers information maneuver is not what you put on your victory garden to make your vegetables grow then comes the approach the one that works best for me is I'm higher to it oh no pardon me it's a different game I mean to reach your objective successfully and I know you alert pilots in the audience is now ready for tomorrow you've got to follow an established procedure make the right way the only way an established procedure is what a good golfer does as the second nature what the professor is trying to say is that in flying the p-47 there's an established procedure to follow from the moment you approach the airplane until you turn it over to the crew chief at the end of the flight it's a procedure which you'll learn so well that it'll become part of your second nature simple and natural a habit well how's she taking Joe and a good that's good the lieutenant's taking his first hop from the 47 today good you're getting ready to go up in the 47 and is a part of your regular procedure you make an exterior check of the airplane reporting anything that doesn't look just right to your crew chief who's your team partner running swell all right lieutenant clockwise check gas selector on main trim tabs and takeoff position landing gear down and lock the cooler shutters checked for open turbo close track your throttle a half to three quarters of an inch prop lever pull forward mixed to control and idle cutoff generator switch on prop control switch in automatic mags off battery off cage your flight instruments cowl flaps open radio off tail wheel unlocked when you've made your clockwise check you've covered your checklist but you want to look at your list whenever you're in doubt also to check your limits mags on both battery on all right primer two strokes is enough in this heat about 15 seconds on your energizer hold until she whines and watch how you settle we're going up to the elbows airplane react you're pressing all the time you're on the ground you can see what's going on around you come to know that the position of your wheels is just under your inboard guns good thing to know if you're ever running close to the edge you're taking it easy on the brakes you're playing with not trapping on it with mags and flap equalizer check we're ready to call the tower army eight two eight three to find castle tower to army eight two eight three okay to take off on number four over like a kid crossing the street you look up and down that runway throttle forward with a steady positive motion you're flying your 40 taking for granted that you're going to stay in the crew keep to the center go back and see your takeoff you're helping the airplane just a little let's see it over again this pilot is going to be telling the boys about this experience 47 wide landing gear gives this ship excellent ground looping characteristics that can be your friend in need of your engine should ever fail on the takeoff before this pilot loops he slowed her down as much as possible and unlocked the tail wheel he gave hard left rudder and left brake to pivot as for you you're out of the pattern now and established in your flying telling off the altitude you want and setting your throttle and rpm for your desired cruising speed which at this stage of your training will be about 32 inches manifold pressure and 2250 rpm switch from main to auxiliary you want to keep those instruments in the green check your checklist on your operating limits and tabs on the 47 are sensitive you can trim your ship quickly and easily with a small adjustment on this flight so let's get in those shallow and steep banks and get the feel of the 47 speed turns and check on your turning radius the sloppiness of controls or your stall signal speed on your own individual shoulder harness lock you're making a clockwise check of the cockpit before landing gas selector turn to your tank containing the most fuel on and rudder and landing trim tail shutters and intercooler shutters and neutral propeller rpm at 2550 mixture control at auto-rich Army 8283 to find Castle Tower standing out of the landing instructions Although... Find Castle Tower to Army 8283 okay for landing your number one on number four wheels down and locked over your flap equalizer you want the rod to stick out three eighths of an inch at a thousand feet you're coming in on the base leg at the turn you're six to eight hundred feet 150 indicated airspeed coming out of the turn you're at 500 feet flaps pull down you set your 47 down on the first quarter of the runway here's how you look while you're doing it flaps coming down on the throttle you're establishing your glide about a hundred and twenty with the runway coming in for a normal three-point landing smooth as silk 47 you don't lower your landing gear with your speed above 200 down get out of local traffic and find out what's wrong to lower a stubborn landing gear you're the airplane this should bring you in with wheels you're making your turn for a landing your speed is a hundred and fifty coming out about a hundred and forty never lower your flaps if your speed is above a hundred and ninety if the flaps don't come down and there's no pressure indicated on the gauge put the flap handle down and operate the hand pump be sure the landing gear handle is in neutral when you operate the pump this pilot has come in too high and hot if you should ever find yourself in this position with too much speed or height to land in the first quarter of the runway or on the coal and put it out of it give it full power but don't pull up too steeply when you're above 500 feet milk your flaps up get some altitude go around and shoot another landing you're making this a good one but remember that a landing hasn't been completed until you stop rolling more brave you're getting down to taxi speed before you unlock your tail wheel get it unlocked before you start to turn acted so they don't get nicked by flying stones to find it for an emergency takeoff parking brakes set until the chocks are under the wheels radio off clear the engine 1,000 rpm and then mixture control to idle cutoff when the propeller stops rotating cut the mags battery off fuel selector off rudder and aileron trim tabs to neutral flaps down generator switch off flight controls locked you made it a good one all right you knew what you were doing all the time and you didn't take anything for granted you took all the necessary safety precautions for ground personnel, yourself and the airplane you kept your head up out of the cockpit on the ground and in the air you asked the airplane all the time on the ground you used the throttle smoothly on takeoff you got off the ground nicely felt pretty good too you glanced frequently at your instruments to see the temperatures remained in the green you used your time in the air to feel out the P-47 to discover stalling speeds and turning radius when you came in you made a proper turn and approach that's a nice job of flying the kind of flying that helps any pilot through transition and into combat