Absolutely beautiful!
My favorite airplane of all time.
Only 23 or so are left, so this is a valuable find.
A gorgeous plane. I have seen one a bunch of times at Oshkosh, I think it is "Big Ass Bird" or something like that...
I have never really got the hang of the razorbacks, but I love the bubble canopy.
My favorite is the P-38 - because my dad worked for Hughes Aircraft in Burbank - and helped to build them.
Besides mine - this is on my short list of favorite airplanes.
When they arrived at the mountain where the plane had crashed, a local directed them to some wreckage in a small gorge. It turned out to be a P-47 that had disappeared in 1943 and its pilot's remains were still inside. Using his dog tags, they got on the Internet (isn't technology wonderful), found out who he was, his hometown, and the fact that his younger sister was still alive. They then found the sister's phone number and called her via satellite phone from the jungle of New Guinea with the news that her brother had finally been found.
It was an amazing thing to see and a touching tribute to the heroic men who flew the Jug into harm's way.