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

My Uncle as well..365th FG / 386th FS

6 50 caliber guns devastating

@@PostalWorker14 ... Just a little correction..the P-47 had Eight (8) 50-cal Brownings... My Uncle described it as having eight Sledgehammers...

That is a fact Brian.

Has more horse power than a mustang too and the plane is build around the R200 Double Wasp supercharged engine

Drag strip haha

Surprised for the response

Just imagine if you could burn Nitro 🔥 in them, the HP would go through the roof

@@frankroy9423 the prop would leave the plane before the fuselage moved a inch.

The sound IS the MUSIC.

@@donotneed2250 Exactly

Todd Sanderson its music

You can always hear the gear case on these eng's.

Yes you do !! Go now ! Go razorback, not bubble top !

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.

+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...!!

Eight .50 caliber machine guns on this bad boy. Eight!

And armor behind the pilot!

+1 to that. Not many people even know the Warthog is actually a Thunderbolt II

I find it interesting that both these aircraft had nicknames they are better known as than their 'given' name. Can't wait for Thunderbolt III

Drackkor the Strumovik is the A-10s father.

The P-40 could also be a candidate.

dru tha damaja no it's not the il2 is russian and the p47 was far more superior but was not as good at using its guns against tanks

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.

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 KZfaq 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.

Hell yeah.

That's funny

as a warplane? surely you can't be serious

​@stereolababy I think he means as a Close Air Support plane.

@@colterstutesman7810 idc how he means its dumb

@@colterstutesman7810 Absolutely. Google A29.

Sounds like me when I wake up.

Alex the Hun You've got a clank, too? 😱😳🍀 Well, here's hoping it's just the denture and you zoom along nicely! 😂😂

+minitstop I'd love to have flown in this work of art .Envy the pilots who did.

Primer scupper to prevent excessive accumulation.

It was one of the safer aircraft to take over

It was a hell of airplane...hydraulics, cockpit and engine stood behind bullet proof metal. It had +2,000hp. One of best ground attacks airplanes of WW2. It also had a great range and +7000 ft no german airplane could withstand a dogfight. It was a great scouter also.

No. 😶

Don`t have to; Marvin Bledsoe`s book P-47 THUNDERBOLT puts you right in that cockpit ((during combat sorties)). AWESOME read !

No worries the jug could take a lot of punishment.

I thought it sounded likea P+ w a very large thirsty workhorse that got the job done.!

@J Calhoun what about the b17.

@Dave's Politics Club - aww... somebody got their widdle feelings hurt.

@J Calhoun The N was the fastest fighter with the longest range of the war . They got at least 2 squadrons into the Pacific before August 45

@Frank Parrish they're big , heavy and expensive to fly . And not many made back from overseas , and they shut off production very quickly . The merlin is easier to work on and more glamorous . The 51 is prettier (to some people )

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.

It was the heaviest single engine, one pilot plane the usa made.

@yolanda jerginson thanks

A hockey player in a figure skating contest, a figure skating contest to the death, sooner or later he's gonna reach out with that big stick and it won't be long he'll be the only one left on the ice.

I went to an airshow in Fresno years ago that was a Doolittle tribute and a p47 had flown in . I hardly looked at any of the other aircraft . When she fired up your guts shook . It's too bad that the pilot owner was a jack as@, because the plane was gorgeous .

Same here, like in 1985...turned out like shit but I was 11 and had my P-47 replica.

i got a Hardon :-)

That’s complete bulltish.

@@thethirdman225 I got that from my father who was there. Were you?

@@mysticwanderer4787 Well, the animosity between the RAF and US pilots is well known. A quasi-independent witness report can be found is Clostermann’s book _’The Big Show’,_ in which Clostermann describes his own views of the P-47. Clostermann was a Frenchman who had lived in the United States and flew for the RAF. Any belief that RAF pilots laughed is simply not true. He expressed concerns about how long a fully-laden P-47 took to get off the ground and this definitely had repercussions for airfield management. But there was no ‘laughing followed by shock when anyone realised anything about the P-47’s qualities’. That is simply an ‘old war story’.

Yak that win the war

@@misy5174 You do know that in English "Yak" means to "throw up".

Shlomo would be so proud...