4 P-47 Thunderbolt's Missing Man flight, Planes of Fame airshow 2019 

DILLIGAF Dude What’s cool is that the P-51A was recently painted up for a movie so all the weathering and stuff is all paint, looks awesome up close!!

God Bless Him! My dad was a Ball Turret Gunner on a B-17.

Wow I thank both of your Fathers for their Services.....I would to have loved to hear the stories they told yinz...Gabby Gabreski flew the Jug and became a Ace. He grew up in Oil City Pa not to far from me. The Thunderbolt and B-17 are my two Favourite birds of WWII.

I. So sorry

God Bless yourDad a true American we neededpeoplelikehim

my cousin flew P38s in north africa. shot down twice captured the 2nd time. doolittle awarded him the DFC. had 7 kills. his name was charles earnhardt. we are related to the race car earnhardt's. he was murdered in 1974 when a couple of goons came to his pharmacy looking for drugs.

49th FS,,, here is a link,,,go to bottom of page. they forgot to add the "D" in Earnhardt. tighar.org/Projects/P38/elliott.htm

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 ...so is Bill Elliot related to the Earnhardts?......

you have it right P-47 wsagretplane itsjust that the Mustang Glamour girl got more attention the Thunrdrbolt gret at ground attack subrb

Thunderbolt had a better engine could take alot of damage and come back home radial alot tougher than a inline aircooled enngine

Well the early P47 may have been a pig but you must know about the P47D which was the yellow and silver, and the P47M and the last model P47N the most deadly planes in WWll P38 was poor until the L model then mostly did photo recon

my cousin flew P38s in north africa. shot down twice captured the 2nd time. doolittle awarded him the DFC. had 7 kills. his name was charles earnhardt. we are related to the race car earnhardt's. he was murdered in 1974 when a couple of goons came to his pharmacy looking for drugs.

49th FS. here is a link,,go to bottom of page. they forgot the "D" in Earnhardt tighar.org/Projects/P38/elliott.htm.

Those were used for High Altitude and for full Military Power settings only. Most likley they are In Op and just there for looks now. They have no need to use the Super Chargers other than for war. Even on the Bombers that are still flying today they dont used the super chargers either. The P-47s Turbo Super Chargers are still in op....Thats a whole different specific and individual design for the Thunderbolt only.

@@miller7759 I believe they're an integral part of the exhaust system so they're not used in producing power like they used to but they still need them for exhaust

hats off to him

The jug and the skytrain

Me too....a beauty !!

me too

Yes, that is an Allison powered A model. Thank you!

@@Voodoo1650 A rarity by any means given the changeover to the Merlins during the war. The Allison is close in sound to the Merlin in the air, but definitely different when at low revs on the ground. I had an old friend who flew Australian P-40s in the Pacific. He told me he had to land on a US airfield to refuel one time and taxied up and parked next to a P.47. He said the Crew Chief for the P.47 looked over and said, 'Jeez, I didn't think anybody was still flying those!' He felt so in awe of the P.47 and so embarrassed by the comment he did not want to get out of the aircraft. He lived to a very old age and had a happy life. One of the fortunate ones.

I put this on my big sound system just to hear the thunder!

The Daimler Benz and Klimov inlines sound amazing too-

@@Bandit_Sudo ok, you are right😎👍

JC Woodman That is cool seeing one of those in flying condition, I didn't know there was one that was airworthy.

@@dukecraig2402 Yes, and the P51A got my eye too!

They were all a treat that can't be beat

@PasswordBosco I recall the words of a Brit Spitfire pilot on fist seeing a Jug: " how d'you take evasive action in that; walk around the cockpit?"

So true! I’ve always liked the lines of the razor back P-47’s & the P-51 B/C’s better, but I’ll take the bubble canopy in battle all day long!!

Love the sound of a 2800R and RR Merlin......Pure Symphony to the ears.

FinA!!!!!

What's cool about that paint scheme, is that it was a temporary washable paint put on for a movie. It looked really good in person!

Punks too busy on twitter.

Hava Faza I did, I’ll be posting that one later!

Martha Vaughan the A-36 was the ground attack/dive bomber version of the P-51A, they had dive breaks in the top and bottom of both wings. Here’s a picture of one i.pinimg.com/originals/a2/a3/c6/a2a3c6391ffe68cc1d5db01edce0933d.png

There were several models developed from the NA-76 design proposal powered by the Allison. They differed in armament and some minor equipment variations: Mustang Mk I, P-51, Mustang Mk II, P-51A, and A-36.

FWDoraDora13 Yes it is.

@FWDoraDora13 two quick giveaways square scoop above nose 3 bladed propeller once they mounted a Merlin engine in a airframe the rest is history stay the course Bruce

@@brucerobinson7295 Please explain when did the A-36 Apaches become Stangs?

@@marthavaughan4660 They were both North American but I see what you are looking at. I wonder if that was an Apache?

@@fistpunder originally they(A36) were used as ground attack a/c as they did not have high altitude capability. Champlin museum in Mesa used to have one and it was referred to as an A36 Apache. This is probably it. I believe the british first referred to them as Mustangs after the repower. Ther is an excellent video on A36 bomber/ fighter planes out of Italy. They attatched cameras to different points on the a/c and proceeded to dive bomb positions as they "moved up the boot". They also had interesting dive brakes-- a "fence" would rise from the top of the wing to slow it down. Look up the video, it's a good watch

Michael Carrier They both flew early as the show opener/missing man flight, and also after Saturday’s flight Snafu had an issue and was down for maintenance the rest of the weekend.

And do not forget......8 50s! That is some hittin power right there!

The bigger they r the harder they fall ...Bogie s last film

Shift2Movies The 47’s were powered by 2800’s

campbellbox Yes, it was painted like this for a movie, it looks really good in person!

Voodoo1650 It looks pretty good in the video too! Any idea what the film is called?

MrLunchHour2 Every year they have a theme for the show that has to do with a part of the war, this year was the anniversary of D-day, but this year they also did it for Dave Vopat. Dave was a friend and pilot for the museum and he was killed flying the museums flying wing the month before the show.

Voodoo1650 thanks for the info. I heard about that crash. They shouldn’t be flying something that rare but most importantly it’s a shame a man lost his life in the process. I know Paul Allens museum has a very rare fw190 d13 that is so rare they don’t want to fly it

@@MrLunchHour2 And they have an original Me 262, jet engines rebuilt, I think they are going to fast taxi test it then do one flight, next it goes into the museum, never to be flown again.

Tiffies did have some serious bugs to work out, but after sorting things out they did some damage to the Germans and they did look badass!

@@deplorable_bitter_clinger7482 They all had bugs at first, the Spitfire itself had to go through several changes and upgrades before it was useful, like most of these plane's the origional prototype Spit crashed and was lost due to things that needed to be sorted out with it, none of those plane's were successful in their original form and even after they were sorted out they all went through continual upgrades throughout their service life. Given all the variations and sub variations of these things working in maintenance for them must of been a nightmare figuring out which parts to order, makes you wonder how many maintenance personnel wound up committed to mental health facilities during the war.

...nope,...P-47G...these were the Curtiss-built P-47's, didn't build but a few hundred of them, either, so they are quite rare....I think they were roughly equivalent to the late P-47C's and early razorback P-47D's....

Yes, stock Bronze class "Huntress"

Lewis Beedle and one raced at the Phoenix 500 in 95.

Thunderbolts were too heavy to race against Mustangs and Furys. Corsairs could give the lighter planes a run but same thing , heavy because they were built for carriers.

Bill Ness they’re both G models. The POF thunderbolt is a Curtiss built P-47, as for Snafu I can’t remember if she was a Curtiss or Republic bird. Neither one of the organizations would fudge the titles of the planes.

The G was a Curtis built D model with a bubble canopy.

That one is a P-51A.

What Spitfire not here.