FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
Great minds think alike! That was going to be my next point. Almost overnight many S Korean airfields were lengthened as UN forces starting moving north once the initial N Korean push was halted. My friend from earlier posts needs to explore early jet T/O data. There were several airfields where P-47Ns "could have" been operated from, even at higher gross weights and still had plenty of range to reach most targets over N KoreaThe only observation I can make is the comments about the length of the runway needed for the P47 and P51. I would have thought that there were enough runways that catered for the prodigious runways demands of the early jets in hot temperatures which makes that discussion point almost irrelevant.