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Offline brady

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« on: March 03, 2005, 05:41:20 PM »
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« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2005, 05:49:35 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2005, 05:57:47 PM »
boresighting a P47?
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2005, 06:39:41 PM »
a unfortanite pilot that left his jug in a bad neighbor hood.They're stripping his ride and leaving it on jack stands.
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« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2005, 06:43:24 PM »
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boresighting a P47?


Nope... not bore sighting a p47,looks more like sighting in a p47's 50 cal's :D
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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2005, 11:54:06 PM »
I think we can try to be more exact than just "jug"....were i forced to wager i would say P-47n, somewhere in the pacific...& beauty of a photo, thanks brady
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« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2005, 03:46:49 AM »
P-47N-1-RE with the 318th FG operating from le Shima.  And they are boresighting it.

http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/aircraft/p-47/8.html

About 3/4 of the way down the page.  Same pic.  :)

I thought it looked familiar, I reference this writeup on the P47 alot.


Bore sighting the guns on any fighter was meticulous work. To obtain the best result, all the guns were sighted to focus on a specific point. Often, the pilot would specify that point. This P-47N-1-RE served with the 318th Fighter Group operating out of le Shima.

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« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2005, 03:50:50 AM »
What is that thing they are using for that? It seems like it enters the gunbay from shell ejection tube. Maybe it's optical?

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« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2005, 05:53:58 AM »
Charge,

I think it's just a hydraulic jack, like the one keeping the tail up. They are probably using the one under the wing to fine tune the plane to level attitude.
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« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2005, 06:28:56 AM »
Well, it did look like a bit too robust tripod for a scope...

:D

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« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2005, 09:44:44 AM »
P-47, it is:)


 


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Image source indicates this to be a "N", howeaver  it does not apear to have cliped wing tips, thought to be fair the wingtips are kinda 'cliped' from the pick, though they do not realy look to be cliped, So imo, this is a "D" model.
The plot kinda thickens though, I have another Image (one I almost used in stead) that shows a P-47 N On Ie Shima In the Same Collors (yes the picture is collor as well) The Unit is the 318 FG, which this plane belongs to as well acording to the image source. So what is likely is that the unit was being upgraded to "N's" and the original Image source just asumed it was a "N"....

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 It apears that the build numbers on the tail would fal withen the production run of the "N", so this may well be a "N" after all.
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« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2005, 11:15:36 AM »
That's it?  P-47?  

No suffixes or production history or pilot roster or unit history or auxiliary equipment nomenclature or location latitude or detailed chronology up to the 1/250 second of the photograph?

This contest is getting easy.





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Ooops ... didn't scroll down far enough past the big space and dotted line.  Whew ... my enlightenment meter is recharged and sucking up details once again.  Thanks.
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« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2005, 04:19:49 AM »
Scouser's will steal the wheels of anything !!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2005, 07:43:27 AM »
The Navy has stolen this Jug and is repainting it blue, trying to pass it off as a Hellcat.
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« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2005, 01:21:06 PM »
That is a P47-N-1-RE.  That assumes I read the tail number correctly as 487957, meaning the serial number would be 44-87957.  There is no specific history on that plane, but her sister (487956) was lost over water in the Central Pacific theater.  This aircraft was assigned to the 413th Fighter Group, but I can't find the color code for which squadron was which.  The Group consisted of the 1st, 21st, and 34th Fighter Squadrons, and was based on Ie Shima in 1945.
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