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Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: brady on March 03, 2005, 05:41:20 PM

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(http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_322.jpg)

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: john9001 on March 03, 2005, 05:49:35 PM

AH hot pad

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: storch on March 03, 2005, 05:57:47 PM

boresighting a P47?

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: gear 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.

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: gear on March 03, 2005, 06:43:24 PM

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Originally posted by storch
boresighting a P47?

Nope... not bore sighting a p47,looks more like sighting in a p47's 50 cal's :D

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: bunch 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

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 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.

(http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/aircraft/p-47/P-47n-318fgcomp.jpg)

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: Charge 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?

-C+

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: Wmaker 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.

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: Charge on March 04, 2005, 06:28:56 AM

Well, it did look like a bit too robust tripod for a scope...

:D

-C+

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: brady 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"....

Edit:

 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.

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: Halo 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.

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: bob149 on March 09, 2005, 04:19:49 AM

Scouser's will steal the wheels of anything !!!!!!!!!

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Post by: Rasker 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.

Title: According to my sources,
Post by: rshubert 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.

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: Jester on March 09, 2005, 05:50:07 PM

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Originally posted by Rasker
The Navy has stolen this Jug and is repainting it blue, trying to pass it off as a Hellcat.

Why the HELL would you want a JUGG when you could have a HELLCAT!!!!  :rolleyes:

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: frank3 on March 10, 2005, 05:21:09 AM

2 extra guns and +100 mph :)

Title: Re: Name This...(1026)
Post by: joeblogs on March 10, 2005, 10:32:59 AM

Silly rabbit, that's how the Hog grabs alt.

-blogs

Title: Name This...(1026)
Post by: Maverick on March 10, 2005, 11:01:53 AM

FWIW.

There is a .50 cal boresight device. It has a pin that fits into the bore of the MG and has an optical device using a prism that allows the viewer to see where the gun is pointed from 90 degrees away. The scope also has a cross hair so that it can aid in aiming the gun. This type of device is still used today for those systems that use a remote fired .50 cal like the small "min turret" in the M60 tank. This allows the crew to align the optical sights and the gun.

It looks as if the ground crew in the picture are using a device like that to aim the guns on the jug.