P-47 Helmet Cam- Wicked Wabbit and Hun Hunter

Weather kept us away from Oshkosh, but Saturday turned nice at the TN Museum of Aviation, so we had a nice flight. Take-off and about 13 min of helmet cam until the camera fell off it's mount. I need to improve my setup a bit. Enjoy.

[@Illness.og.]

Crazy how we thought of a way to get 8 tons to move gracefully

[@GTX1123]

One of the safest fighters of WW2. The Jug could take a savage beating from the best of the Luftwaffe and still get it's pilot back to base. The P51 might have been slightly better overall in performance but it couldn't take anywhere near the beating a P47 could endure. One round into the P51's liquid cooled Merlin and it was over. P47's were known to have cylinders shot out of it's Double Wasp radial engine and still make it back to base.

[@susanbutler2498]

Just bloody WONDERFUL! My Dream WW2 Fighter! Thank you for the brilliant experience Mate! Respect from New Zealand.

[@tireshredderjoe8894]

The Cadillac of WW2 fighters.

[@milocabral7428]

God she’s in spectacular shape. The buzz of that wasp is like music to my ears :)

[@closestchunk]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting this. My great uncle Manuel Alvarez flew jugs and has since passed on. I was very fond of him and we always connected over airplanes. The D model with the bubble was his favorite.

[@Mike-01234]

I love the old films of big formations of P-47's and gun camera strafing Germany.

[@mylakay100]

Excellent video of formation flying in the P47D Thunderbolt!

[@erwinroman4217]

My favorite aircraft. A girlfriend's father flew a P-47 in Europe during WWII, painted with the black & white invasion stripes. Robert Johnson's book, "Thunderbolt" is an excellent read.

[@grumpeej3465]

Never gets old, Thanks for posting.

[@bailiff193]

John! I was just reminiscing and thought I'd try KZbin and preston! You used to come into our little antique shop in Oak Ridge! That was about 2000. You were just healing up from jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. I still have my favorite Christmas card hanging over my desk! I'm sure you remember Santa in his P47. Great to see you so healthy! I smile every time I think of you!

[@jshoff725]

Hi Dave - Very nice to hear from you. Still drinking out of some nice little demi port glasses I bought there. Yes, still out here. Also racing a lot in Europe. I'll stop by next time I'm up that way. Thanks for checking in.

[@porsche1971]

Beautiful film! love the P47 bubble top.

[@raphaelcordero2900]

I too have flown this plane thousands of times, In warthunder

[@bowser515]

You can go up a level now and try it on DCS World!

[@FujisamaProductions]

@@bowser515 Yep I have only 20 flight hours logged in the jug (DCS) still learning all of her engine management temperaments.

[@ryanmoeller3308]

If you're ever in Oklahoma, I'd love to meet you!! The P-47 is my favorite aircraft and I have yet to see one in person..

[@alfredbelcher1369]

Flying tank my favorite

[@walkersullivan9153]

Another excellent video

[@lindapfister2484]

Yep my dad helped win the war with this plane. Sad most are gone. He was under lt noman holt. Harry j wildhaber he passed at 91 yrs old. Miss his talking on planes. He had to jump out once hid in a haystack for 3 days. Lucky for him seen a jeep coming he was dying of thirst. It was the americans

[@danilorainone406]

grandad of the warthog,,still has it,'d love to see spielberg do a move featuring a jug squadron, a la saving private ryanalso be cool if the local air regs might allow them to di a few 400mph dives,catching it on cam too

[@SulCoCrazy]

Nice pre-flight intro. Liked seeing checking the mags. When flying in formation, how do you handle the wash from hun hunter?

[@pcohen85]

Thanks for the cool video! Do you remember meeting a crop duster pilot at the Reno, Nv airport in December 2013? Im pretty sure it was you that I met. Can't be too many P-47 owners named John! Thanks again!

[@jshoff725]

Sorry, could not have been me. Haven't been to Reno since 2010. But thanks for tuning in.

[@88thCompany]

Waaaaaaaaaw 😍😍😍 this is a dream!!!!

[@christiancruz4533]

❤

[@rjo3737]

brilliant!

[@bobfeller604]

My favorite plane of WWII.

[@hlobloj2169]

If I ever win the lottery 😁

[@jaadytetty9377]

I actually stood next to this aircraft in the Tennessee air museum near pigeon forge I think there was a mig 17 and it was fun there would go back again.

[@81squadronraf]

Great!

[@Turloghan]

Supercharger, is it still working on this beautifull machine?

[@303HOLYONE]

Dear Sir. Thank you for your beautiful video. I'm going to send as a link your video on IL2 forum to show people how good P-47 was in climbing. Could you be so kind and tell us what block-version exactly is? Is it D-28 or something else? I still know not much about differences between D model versions so I would like to be sure. Best regards HOLY

[@jshoff725]

Hi 303_Holy , This is a D40 RA. Glad you enjoyed it. - JS

[@303HOLYONE]

@@jshoff725 Thnx for quick answer sir. Is this beauty was fueled as full on Main tank and almost full on Aux tank? I would like to see you this conversation sir. forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/44778-p-47-flight-model-discussion/page/6/#comments

[@jshoff725]

@@303HOLYONE During this flight it was likely nearly full on the main but less than 25gal on aux. It's normal to fly to an airshow and burn the aux down to 20 or so and then do the show on the main, usually topped off since the Thunderbolt just doesn't care. Thanks for the interest.

[@303HOLYONE]

@@jshoff725 One more time I would like to thank you Sir.

[@jshoff725]

@@303HOLYONE My pleasure, sir.

[@outperformancelife3145]

It would be great if when you bought the WWII planes that they had the peepers available so if you wanted to use the guns for shooting targets and what not you could.

[@johnheys8031]

No turbocharger stick left of the throttle?

[@facethefaceandmore44]

Imagine owning a P47, then finding out that your friend owns one too. What are the chances.

[@FilipusWisnumurti]

Is that canopy electricly controlled?

[@FujisamaProductions]

Yes :) It was like that during production too

[@jdevona3469]

Any chance you could mic yourself up and talk us through pre-flight, start-up, etc...?

[@jshoff725]

I believe there are several videos on here that have that. Perhaps we'll do that someday. Thanks.

[@minnesotajack1]

Easily my favorite war bird of all time. ME 262 would be 2nd

[@lindapfister2484]

My dad harry j wildhaber knew hun hunter.

[@brettlloyd4446]

The p47 is a beast. It is fast, heavy, big, devastating ground attack as well as fighter plane, powered by the great r2800 engine

[@ruslankovalenko1292]

Шо тут можна сказати?