Restored WWII Republic P-47 Thunderbolt "Razorback" Fighter Flight Demo !
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This is a short flight demo of the Planes of Fame Museum's (Chino, California) own P-47 "Razorback" Thunderbolt. This aircraft is a "G" model, one of the 354 built under license by Curtiss in Buffalo, New York. This aircraft has a 2,000-horsepower Pratt & Whitney R-2800, 18-cylinder engine. What a monster of a WWII fighter!
She was big, fast, tough and deadly. My favorite fighter of WWII. Sure the Mustang, the Lightning and the Spitfire were sexier but the Jug has that special appeal that is intangible. It is the embodiment of toughness.
Yessir couldn’t of said it any better🤟💜, my personal favorite is probably a P-51 mustang or a JU-87 stuka.
mine too!!! p47 is a beast....the plane most likely to get you home after a rough fight.
P47 & Mosquito for me. 2 favourite fighters of WW2
I love the razorback version!
all planes are awesome, but P-47 has a special place in my heart
The BEAUTIFUL and MIGHTY Jug!!!
I’m 52 years old and every time I watch and listen to this video I tear up, especially when she’s at full power. Her Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-Cylinder Radial Engine is one of the most BEAUTIFUL sounds EVER created by human beings!!! 🥲
That is a fact Brian.
That's one big motor and a lot of horses there! Sounds better than any jet any day.
Looks brand new and love that sound! Especially since there isn't any music!
The sound IS the MUSIC.
@@donotneed2250 Exactly
I love the sound of the Pratt & Whitney R-2800
Todd Sanderson its music
You can always hear the gear case on these eng's.
Can you imagine a whole squadron taking off together.
Shattered windows my guess.
Can you imagine what a squadron of these sounded like backed up by B-17s or B-24s?
@@nightshadedawn that would be so amazing but hearing protection will be needed.
We met Steve Hinton walking around his shop at the museum back in 1990 and he signed my sons aviation book.
He is my son's greatest heroe and always aspiring to be like him some day. He is really a great person..!!
The Chino museum is the WWII aviation home in the south west and is a just wonderful place to be at...!
May God bless Steve, his crew and all that goes at that place, they are really preserving American history down to the details..
Thanks for allowing me to post this comment.
+El Diablo Steve is a super great guy with the best job in the world!
+Hivolt Arc... Indeed he is...! Him and his crew are the forefront of maintaining and preserving
some of the most important artifacts of that era...a great job for sure...!!
Sounds like a construction crew hard at work in there until it fires. Absolutely perfect! Outstanding video on a beautiful 47.
The most underestimated fighter of the war, all the glory went to the Mustang. As a Mustang fan, truth is it was the P-47 that actually broke the back of the Luftwaffe. and gave what was left to the P-51 pilots
Razorback Jugs are classic! You can’t argue with 2,000 horsepower and eight .50 calibers! 🇺🇸👍👏
Flak Jack Ed I’m to understand the razorbacks handled better than the bubble canopy jugs due to the portions of fuselage they cut away providing flight stability too.
C. Welch , true, but the pilots prefer the all-around visibility that the bubble canopy provides. 👍
You can’t negotiate with this machine. It usually chews up anything you could throw at it.
Nothing like the sound of a big radial engine, truly a thing of beauty.
The P-47 is like the B-17 and the Huey it'll take a beating and still bring you home.
Needing to be well placed of course, a single rifle bullet could/did bring down a P51 but a P47 (once at least) with an entire cylinder shot away flew the pilot home safely. Both lethal: the difference between a rapier and a broad sword.
Yes, what do you say is the most overlooked and most important factor of aerial combat.
Almost all shoot down kills, at least 80% in World War II, the aircraft killed was jumped and surprised.
In this scenario, the aircraft that has the best survivability, all other things being roughly equal, that aircraft has a huge advantage.
The numbers prove it. In the European theater, the best P 51 pilots were shot down and killed. The best P 47 pilot survived.
The radio engine and the P 47 combined to make the most effective fighter Aircraft in The European theater.
The Thunderbolt also had the range but the Army Air Force was too stupid and incompetent to get the right wing tanks. The UA-cam channel Greg’s airplanes Proves this beyond the shadow of a doubt
@@Imtahotep: it happens frequently, massively damaged thunderbolt returning.
As good as the P 51 was, it was inferior overall because the best pilots died because of its fragility.
That is why the best American aces Were thunderbolt pilots and they survived the war. (European theater … the toughest arena)
@@Imtahotep That claim is mostly internet hooey. The statistics that actually exist on ground attack casualties don’t bear out the ‘one bullet in the cooling system and it’s all over’ trope. It’s a Greg thing. The three main causes of casualties in ground attack were Flak, enemy aircraft and flying into the ground.
@@Imtahotep The ‘got home with two cylinders shot away’ trope doesn’t have much going for it either. I have repeatedly asked but despite other photographs being available, nobody has ever been able to produce one of a surviving P-47 with missing cylinders.
Yet everyone who says this claims either; 1) it was a regular thing and no big deal or 2) they know someone it happened to.
A friend's wife father, Col Billy Edens, flew a P47 in WW2. Watched an interview of him, incredible man.
And THAT is what true power sounds like!!!
Hell yeah.
A ground crewman observing a P-47 pilot climbing down from the aircraft asked (in paraphrase) 'Where's the rest of the crew?' That gave me a chuckle reading this recently. The film, Fighter Squadron (1948) with Edmond O'Brien and Robert Stack really captures the beauty of the P-47 Thunderbolt in flight. Powerful aircraft. On that last pass the engine sounds like it's loping along and not even breaking a sweat.
If anything good at all came out of WW2 it's all the wonderful warbirds us RC modelers are so fond of building and flying!
And we get to watch your wonderful skills flying around. And now they are coming out with incredible sounding engines.
Also killing the nazis, that was also pritty good I'd argue.
Nothing sounds better than a R-2800 at speed!
Love the raw fuel pouring out on the first revolution
Primer scupper to prevent excessive accumulation.
Awesome job. Labor of love. We have a jug training field in Southern NJ (Vineland). Every year they have a WWII weekend. I hope you make it around one year so we can see it.
that thing is a beast!, you really appreciated it when you see it close up, start up and take off. It's a bigger airplane than you think, if you've only seen it on television or in the movies. That loud engine noise and scream must have been the sounds of joy for the U.S. and allied pilots cause it helped kick the Nazis ass and win the war.
Yak that win the war
@@misy5174
You do know that in English "Yak" means to "throw up".
Shlomo would be so proud...
👍👍👍❤️❤️Love the P&W R-2800 Sound !
It’s funny how pampered and spotless these airplanes are. People used to climb into these things to go blow shit up.
Every time a P-47 starts up, Al Gore cries a little inside
F4u
Corsair
FPS Hungary...Good!
👍👍👍
Great! That phoney candy ass can fffffffade away!
Nah, I think he’d give this one a pass. 😂😂😂😜
1:30 That pass is everything about the power of the P47
All I can say is WOW love the flyby
That sound....it's the sound of victory.
Beautiful fighter....Once I had a model of it. Greetings from Poland.
Loud and proud!!! I love the sound of the old warbirds with no mufflers!!!
wow that sound is amazing barely hear that now
I love this airplane! The flying tank!
It was routine for my mom to see these P47's flying around during WW2 she was British, there were US planes everywhere.
That P-47 is a beast!
my favorite plane ever!!!
Helluva huge motor in the P47 !
WOW, sounds brutal through the headphones
She's gorgeous. Luv it!
Does the exhaust smoke coming from the cowl gills instead of under the rear fuselage mean the turbo has been deleted?
She's So Beautiful, She Made My Heartbeat Fast!
Thanks Much!
i got a Hardon :-)
Love that turbo whine when if first hits.
Beast!, is an understatement!
Has that thing been smogged?
Great video and what a treat!
Yep I truly do love that sound
Sounds like someones having a pee just before it starts lol, Great Aircraft.
+Lagg Buster That big radial has been known to cause involuntary loss of bladder control.
this thing is just insane
Fantastic sound 😮
What a giant fighter .
Love it...still get goosbums every time..
beautiful sound
There's nothing like a big P & W R2800 firing up.
Luv that sound
Thanks for sharing, awesome plane.
What an absolutely beast! LOVE this!
What an awesome plane
What a wonderful plane. Lots of glorious history. Is this powered by the same engine that was used in the fortress?
Pratt and Whitney R2800 double wasp
I got a stiff one at 0:14.....
😹🤣😂🤣👍🏽
Gorilla UMP
There’s nothing wrong about someone getting “excited” over a ~70+ year old aircraft.
Also remember, those things shook around a lot in the air, so pilots probably got a bit excited as well.
If you can’t comprehend what I’m saying, it’s because I need to go to sleep, it’s like 1am rn.
My father was a P47 pilot during WWII. He flew each of the models and I was unaware the G Model still had the razor back as the P47D was retro-fitted with bubble tops for better visibility. Great aircrafts.
'You got your picture next to the P 51 but hoped to be assigned to the 47.'
I just noticed... those WW2 planes don't rotate for takeoff as modern airplanes do, they are facing upwards, so (seems to me) when they reach the necessary speed, they just take off
Do they have big props to blow away all the smoke?
No
@@onebadapple83 Thanks for clearing that up.
@@phapnui . Radial engines always smoke on start up
Don't forget that there are upside down cylinders that fill with oil
Thus the smoke
@@MartintheTinman Props to you for taking the time to clarify but I was kidding. I'm pretty old school and grew up using dope a lot...for my models to make the rice paper covering resistant to the the model engine gas. I'd go down to local air strip to buy the dope as it was cheaper than buying it in EJ Korvettes..
With 8 .50 caliber wing-mounted machine guns the Thunderbolt could do some serious damage to any target it attacked.
The glorious noise❤️
Ain't nothing like the Jug!
What a beast.
The Jug is so badass!
dang that flyby sound would cause an enemy to fill his pants.
With 8 .50's ..... Savage!
Imagine the parts Depot just for the 50's.
Well, back in the day this was a very bad boy.
Woooooow!!!! Pure power!!!
My fav plane and engine...Sweet.
+jimnrel mine too' they can have their 51's I 'd take her over any mustang any day ' have a much better chance of coming home too' 51's made a lot of pilots POW'S
Beautiful
Sounds mean!!!
Hear the sound of the huge rear-mounted turbocharger...
What a beast! Love it 👌
Wow, that was nice!
It look like a flying engine & prop from one of a 4 engine bomber.
True...good description !
It is. 2000 bhp.
BEAUTIFUL!
Just amazing!
SICK!!
beautiful jug.
What a beautiful beast...
15 lbs of lead come out of those 8 .50 caliber so second at 2850 ft. a second plus the speed of the plane ,they converge at between 250 to 350 yards. It weighs 14, 000 pounds. Nothing can our dive it of the WWII planes. They also carried 5"HVAR and 8" rockets that could penetrate tanks. Read the story of the Falaise Gap, Argentan and Mortain on the coast of France. The Bristish take credit for what the dis to the German Armour ( three Panzer Divisons) from the Eastern Front on R&R who got caught by the P-47's and British Typhoons (kicked the shit out of them). In Author Carlo De Este's book Eisenhower the Supreme Commander "Ike"Eisenhower walked the field at the Falaise Gap near Caen and wretched and vomited at the sight of 10,000 Germans without all their body parts, now you know what general purpose 500lbs bombs, .50 cal machine guns and HVAR (high velocity air. Rockets) do to the enemy (Germans).Plus all the destruction of there Panzer Tanks. The U.S. Army Air Corp. Ninth Tactical Air Forceand the British RAF Typhoon's destroyed nearly 65,000 Germans that day. The Brits had their revenge for Dunkirk!
Yep. Rockets were gonna change everything.
The flying jug, didn't it have the biggest engine of any single set fighter?
Love to hear that "Fat Lady" sing!
I sure miss this paint scheme
Awesomeness!!
Such a beast….
Wow!
While on the way to the fight, you could run downstairs and fix lunch. 👍
Time to run when this big buitifull beast showes up
Imagine what a squadron of P47 s sounded like .
Badass.
"ONE AWESOME FIGHTER BOMBER!"
Krauts be crazy
Why does this model not have a turbo?
+Riley Kirk Why do you say it doesn't have a turbo?
+Riley Kirk They all had turbo;s
Actually, this particular restored aircraft (unlike all factory new P-47s) doesn't have a functioning turbo, it's got ballast bolted in instead for CG reasons. The tell-tale is all the start-up smoke is coming from the turbo waste-gate location (but there are no waste-gates) at the lower firewall from a standard dual exhaust collection ring instead of just in front of the tailwheel from the non-existent turbo exhaust thrust recovery hood (not to mention no intercooler exhaust doors on the side of the fuselage).
Turbocharged AND supercharged PW-R2800
what a beast
Beast
If you like P-47s, I HIGHLY recommend you read the book "Thunderbolt" by ETO P-47 ace (28 kills) Robert Johnson. I'll be shocked if you don't like it.
Fastest Jugs were faster then P 51s!
The Jug....