SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Now throw up a silhouette of a Greyhound bus for scale.
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About there, maybe?????Now throw up a silhouette of a Greyhound bus for scale.
I'd say that USAAC/AAF hit the bullseye with specification that led to the P-47, and so did Republic, P&W and GE in making it happen and be useful.Maybe the US did goof with the specifications but the P-47 was designed to do things no other fighter could do at the time regardless of size and very few could do in 1944.
I knew I could count on you!
If you took off the turbocharger and cut in a few windows etc. it would make an interesting small airliner.
The same thought occurred to me for the Fairey Gannet and the Skyraider too.
The 3-seat Skyraider would have been an AD-3 or AD-4. Two aircrew sat in the fuselage below and aft of the pilot in a very cramped cabin. Most of these would have been AEW (AD-3/-4W), EW (I can't recall the designation at the moment)cor night attack aircraft (AD-3/-4N). I'm so glad that the USN aircraft I flew in when I was aircrew for the USN allowed one to stand upright and walk around.
If the USAF had held on to the P-47 and used it in Korea instead of the P-51, we'd probably have lost a lot fewer pilots…
Couldn't the USN planes, the Bearcat, Hellcat or Corsair, have been the ground attack planes? Is inter service rivalry so insuperable, or were there not enough of the USN planes available?If the USAF had held on to the P-47 and used it in Korea instead of the P-51, we'd probably have lost a lot fewer pilots…
The AD-5N sat 4 in the greenhouse.The 3-seat Skyraider would have been an AD-3 or AD-4. Two aircrew sat in the fuselage below and aft of the pilot in a very cramped cabin. Most of these would have been AEW (AD-3/-4W), EW (I can't recall the designation at the moment)cor night attack aircraft (AD-3/-4N). I'm so glad that the USN aircraft I flew in when I was aircrew for the USN allowed one to stand upright and walk around.
If the USAF had held on to the P-47 and used it in Korea instead of the P-51, we'd probably have lost a lot fewer pilots…
Couldn't the USN planes, the Bearcat, Hellcat or Corsair, have been the ground attack planes? Is inter service rivalry so insuperable, or were there not enough of the USN planes available?
That looks familiar... wonder where I saw it?
If the USAF had held on to the P-47 and used it in Korea instead of the P-51, we'd probably have lost a lot fewer pilots…
Couldn't the USN planes, the Bearcat, Hellcat or Corsair, have been the ground attack planes? Is inter service rivalry so insuperable, or were there not enough of the USN planes available?
The Air National Guard operated P-47s between 1946 and 1955. Originally, the post-war ANG units east of the Mississippi were to operate P-47s and those to the west were to fly P-51s. This plan was generally adhered to, although there were exceptions. By December of 1948, over 700 Mustangs were serving with 28 ANG squadrons. RF-51D reconnaissance aircraft also served with the ANG. No fewer than 22 of the 27 ANG wings saw service in the Korean War.The P-47 was not able to be supported logistically for Korea.
The Bearcat and Hellcat were in reserve units, The Corsair saw lots of action in Korea as a fighter bomber
A few things -I find the "unsupportable" line questionable, as I doubt that it would have taken that much more to ship parts from the P-47 supply facilities west then to Japan/Korea then it did shipping the P-51 parts to Korea. The P-47s could have flown to the west coast to load on the same CVEs that carried the P-51s to Japan/Korea.