Originally posted by Wolfala
Have you ever tried to get a P47 off the ground with 2 thousand pounders and a centerline 500 - let alone 2 two thousand pounders, rockets and a center bomb. It makes a pregnant yak look slim.
As a matter of fact, I have the P-47D-40 set up with the full load of ordnance, maximum ammo, and 75% fuel as one of my two standard attack planes. I very rarely take less. I take the P-38L-5-Lo with 50% fuel, full ammo, 2 1K bombs and 10 rockets as well.
You have to choose the runway carefully with the P-47, and you have to watch your fuel, as it sucks it down rapidly, but I do okay in it. If the trip is long or the area busy, I take the P-38L for range and climb.
Off a CV, I take the full ordnance and ammo on the F4U of my choice as well, with 50%, sometimes 75%. I find the F4U-4 gets off the CV easier, but I like the C Hog guns a lot (my gunnery sucks, Delirium got a bunch of kills finishing off guys I was setting up on but not killing tonight, LOL). I'm not sure you could get the F4U off a CV with 2 2K bombs, that'd be tough. The F4U-4 might do it with 50% fuel.
