(WW2 P47)Thunderbolt elevated (from lake in Austria) - new pictures

Der Salzkammergut Internet Zeitung ^ | 14. Juni 2005

[Defend the Second]

Everything about this plane should be traceable, including the circumstances of the crash and the fate of the pilot. I want to know more. Did he make it? Is he alive today? And if he is, would he like to sit in his old cockpit again? Looks like it's going to be possible. And I think I know how he would answer...

[Defend the Second]

This plane is in just wonderful shape! Look at the Stars and Bars on the wing. And those eight .50 caliber machine guns. There are probably some old Wehrmacht guys that still duck instinctively when they see these pictures.

[grobdriver]

"The specifications that led to the design of this original combat plane were issued in 1937 by Army authorities. (Considering the efforts that the Germans and the British made to put a heavy two-engine fighter into the field, the American design was certainly the best.) What was asked for was a high-altitude interceptor that could reach 360 m.p.h. at 20,000 feet and 290 m.p.h. at 1,500 feet, with an ascent time of six minutes. Many companies that were approached considered the specifications impossible, but Lockheed's head designers, H. L. Hibbard and Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson, examined several possible solutions before settling on the least orthodox one."
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[GoldCountryRedneck]

Hope it's flying in a year or two...thanks for posting!!

Recovered WarBird ping .....

[Robe]

I'd love to see what the "nose art" reads.

I'm looking at it now... blew it up for a look..
From my first looks.. i think I see a "Mr" just aft of the cowl paint stripe and forward of the cowl flaps..
Also a "Dot" and a "Mi" just to the right of the post (if ya view it upside down.
I'm having a look at the 8th AF "Little Friends" pages now..Will advise

[xp38]

Republic P 47 Thunderbolt....Is there a better aircraft name for the Zots here on FR?

[CyberAnt]

Well .. while it appears Lockheed had bought out Hughes - the sign on the buildings said - HUGHES AIRCRAFT - which makes it even more interesting. Hmmmm?? This is really curious.

[archy]

Yes, they are. P&R R2800 radial. Nothing sounds that cool. Nothing.

What? I have a little hearing loss in my right ear, courtesy of the 4x 2800s aboard the DC-6.

You could tell the guy on the ramp doing spark plug changes on a DC-6 by the two 5-gallon buckets he carried, one for the plugs on the port wing engines, the other for starboard.

[Ghengis]

Wow! My dad worked on those birds for a time in WW2. His favorites were the P-51s and P-38s. But he said the P-47s could fly through a brick wall and 10 miles of flak and still get home.

[archy]

It's a bit hard to tell if that's a Razorback Jug or one of the later bubble-canopied D-models, but I suspect that's one of the Evansville-built *RA* P47s.

There's another one in the drink off Port Moresby, Australia, too.

[Dashing Dasher]

AWESOME PIX !!!

THANKS!!!!

[Dashing Dasher]

My favorite airplane of all time.

Besides mine - this is on my short list of favorite airplanes.

[archy]

I'd love to see what the "nose art" reads.

I wonder if it's one of the 379th Fighter Group's planes whose nose art was done by former commercial artist and P47 driver George Rarey.

[Dashing Dasher]

Did you say, ME-109?

[tophat9000]

Pilot got out OK... Here's the story as pulled off the web from a few area

Story seem to be this

The aircraft is from 9th AF 405th FG 511th FS pilot 2/Lt. Henry G. Mohr, Jr....

It went down on V-E day

The pilot was to making a show of presence to a POW camp near by and was flying low over the lake...

The prop hit the water and he had to ditch...

Pilot was ok but went in to that same POW camp after being rescued, but only for a short time

[Billthedrill]

Oooh...I want one...

(I was just corrected by a WWII pedant here at work that the proper nomenclature is "Bf-109". So shoot me.)

[ErnBatavia]

I had a B-17 fly over my house at around 300-500 feet a couple of years ago

Did the guy that was "riding the ball" get a bead on you?

[doublecansiter]

She's a bubble canopy, look close at the 4th photo.
You can see the front windscreen and the armored
seat back.

Mike

[texson66]

In Better Days......

[ErnBatavia]

Prayers for Grandfather!