As far as wings ripping off one has to account for different variants that had different armaments in the wings. More guns.....heavier wing that would come off more easily than a wing with less guns in it. I believe in testing either a version of the mustang or even the jug shed its wing because...
Did'nt have time to read every post but let us not forget about the survivability of the jug compared to its water cooled counterparts! I bet 50% more jugs made it home out of sheer toughness. Just a speculation.
I will again pull the trigger for my beloved t-bolt....it did well as a dogfighter and proved very useable in many other roles. The t-bolt had more surviveability than most on the survey which brought home and protected our most vital asset which eventually helped us triumpf over our foes...the...
In my opinion forget what the superbolt could have done and just look at what the p-47M was capable of. I still believe there was room for even more improvement on that airframe. Just my .02!
Norab....can't come up with the name right now but i'm thinkin of one of those long nosed units they used in the nam to fly supplies to the dangerous runway locations hacked into the jungle that were barely useable airfields
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I have a book at home that can answer that question but i know it was not designed as an escort fighter....however it still lacked by comparison to some of its competitors in climb rate. Although it did live up to army requirements in airspeed,armament,armor, and self sealing tanks,they came up...
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I would say original specs....later aircraft were modified to fix shortcomings like range and climb rate. If i were to use the p-47n for example they had good range. So lets stick to originals for now and maybe later we can morph it into something else.
Tony