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Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: beet1e on September 30, 2002, 03:45:57 AM

A friend sent me a picture of this Jug some years ago. I thought he said it was a razor back, but it seems to have a bubble canopy. :confused: Is it a P47C, or one of the later D variants?

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Wilbus on September 30, 2002, 04:42:01 AM

Definatly not a razor back. It is a P47 D 25-RE or later. The P47 D25-RE was the first production P47 to be fitted with bubble canopy.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Hangtime on September 30, 2002, 08:18:54 AM

See that dorsal on the turtledeck?

Thats a P47N

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Sancho on September 30, 2002, 08:47:32 AM

The tail number indicates it is a P-47D-40-RA.  P-47N fillet is even larger than that one, and has two antennas sticking up on either side of the fillet.  Looks like the "No guts, no glory" P-47 which lives over in England.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Wilbus on September 30, 2002, 08:59:11 AM

What dorsal? The silver think extending from the tail and a bit forward?

Sancho, where can I find information about those numbers. Tried making a search for that number but came up with nothing.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Staga on September 30, 2002, 09:06:26 AM

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p47.html

Edit: in serial first number indicates the manufacturing year and last 5 digits are serial No. 549385

Title: Another, slightly crappier, P47 pic.
Post by: beet1e on September 30, 2002, 10:00:15 AM

Thanks for your responses, guys. Nice to hear from like-minded folks who know about P47s. In fact I put this thread in the Off Topic forum because it's about World War 2. ;)

I took this one about four years ago at the Confederate Air Museum - Falcon Field, AZ. I couldn't get a decent angle to take the photo. Any ideas about this one?

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Wilbus on September 30, 2002, 10:19:59 AM

Razor Back P47 D. Made a search for it and got the serial number, if I understood Staga right it would be from 1944. Probarly quite early as it have a normal cannopy and not a bubble cannopy.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: midnight Target on September 30, 2002, 10:24:16 AM

"Civil # N14519 / Ser# 42-8205 / P-47D "Big Stud" / Museum of Flight, Mesa AZ, USA"

from  http://www.warbirds-online.com/warbird/fighterN-Z.htm

Enjoy.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Daff on September 30, 2002, 11:00:59 AM

Dorsal fillet was added on the D-30 and onwards and enlarged on the D-40. This looks more like a D-30.
The N-series also had square wingtips, which this one doesnt
The CAF Razorback is a P-47G.

Daff

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Monk on September 30, 2002, 12:22:13 PM

Was the Dorsal fin field applied?  I have seen photos of P47ms with no fin, a fin like the D30, and a fin like the "N", high and squared off.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Sancho on September 30, 2002, 01:36:41 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Staga

Edit: in serial first number indicates the manufacturing year and last 5 digits are serial No. 549385

The first number is actually the fiscal year the contract was awarded to Republic for that production block.  It may not have been manufactured the same year.

Monk, I believe the P-47Ms arrived in England without the dorsal fillets applied. There are some color photos of 63rd FS P-47Ms with bare metal fillets on an otherwise completely painted aircraft.  There are photos of the XP-47M being tested stateside without dorsal fillets applied.  According to Jack Bradshaw, the 56th vet we met at the AH Con '01, some P-47Ms received the tall P-47N model fillet, but most had the low rise one like on the D-30.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: midnight Target on September 30, 2002, 03:07:06 PM

P-47D

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: midnight Target on September 30, 2002, 03:07:56 PM

P-47G (Planes of Fame Chino,CA)

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: midnight Target on September 30, 2002, 03:08:35 PM

P-47M

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: midnight Target on September 30, 2002, 03:09:23 PM

P-47N (CAF)

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Thrawn on September 30, 2002, 03:12:43 PM

Sweet, looks like the UN bought a couple of jugs.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: -ammo- on September 30, 2002, 05:59:26 PM

the "UN" is the call letters for the 63 FS, 56th FG. LM would be the call letters for the 62 FS, and HV would be the call letters for the 61 FS (Gabby Gabreski was the CO of the 61 FS. His AC "HV-A" is represented in AH.

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Thrawn on September 30, 2002, 06:20:18 PM

Uh, no ammo.  UN is the acronym for an international organisation called the United Nations.  :rolleyes:




;)

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: -ammo- on September 30, 2002, 06:52:51 PM

uhh... You think you are funny...but your not:)

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Thrawn on September 30, 2002, 07:04:58 PM

Quote

Originally posted by -ammo-
uhh... You think you are funny...but your not:)

Oh, I know no one else thinks I'm funny.  But honestly, I think I'm a riot.  I seriously LMAO when every I post stuff like that.   :D

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 01, 2002, 06:35:44 AM

...

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 01, 2002, 06:39:07 AM

....

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 01, 2002, 06:41:48 AM

And the mother of all bad prettythang juggies :
 :D

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: Animal on October 01, 2002, 06:44:07 AM

Wow these planes are so damn ugly...


/runs away

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Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: straffo on October 01, 2002, 06:46:28 AM

what an ugly paint job :(








nanananere :p

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 01, 2002, 06:47:26 AM

Oh... and Hangtime, shame on you!:o

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on October 01, 2002, 06:53:07 AM

Animal, go back to bed ... dream about your "two jugs with the thing in between ":eek:

Straffo, Spook, hop in da Ford foo! buzz ya later sucka!:cool:

Title: Which Jug is this?
Post by: straffo on October 01, 2002, 07:01:55 AM

Looks like this proud mid 80 ford fiesta owner out runned Da Jug :)

He even got the time to get out of it to take a pic of da jug :D

yada yada ;)



btw I got a nice and funny chat duel on ch1 with NomDe last week it was quite funny :p

extract : "I don't feel the compulsive need to hide myself behind a big multicylinder radial engine "

to bad I didn't film this dialog (a kind of Audiard dialog in English)