P-47 Thunderbolt ideas.

[Weaver]

Sort of related:

I've long had an idea for an attack aircraft that looks like a Fokker G1 on steroids, with a P-47 powertrain in each boom, a high tailplane and a thumping great recoilless (Davis-type) gun in the lower fuselage. Because the Davis gun uses a counter-weight rather than counter-blast, there'd be no blast-damage effects on the boom or tail - just do NOT fly behind on on a straffing run unless you fancy several pounds of grease and ball bearings in the kisser....

It would be to the P-38 Lightning what the P-47 is to the Mustang......

[GTX]

Something silly:



Regards,

Greg

[Aircav]

There's this twin from FSM

[GTX]

What if when the Cavalier Turbo Mustang III was proposed, a similar turboprop P-47 was also offered:



Please note that the engine is entirely fictional, though I did use the T-56 as inspiration.  Note also that the turboprop exhaust is via the similar P-47 turbocharger ducting/exhaust

Regards,

Greg

[Daryl J.]

P-47N COIN tuned for low altitude work.    If life weren't so upended for us right now, there'd be one of these in the GB going up.


Daryl J.

[ElectrikBlue]

Very insteresting, really like your turboprop P-47 profile Greg!  

Regards,

EB

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Has anyone attempted to create a 20mm cannon armed P-47 by replacing the eight machine guns with four Oerlikon or Hispano-Suiza cannons?

[ysi_maniac]

Has anyone attempted to create a 20mm cannon armed P-47 by replacing the eight machine guns with four Oerlikon or Hispano-Suiza cannons?

This is actually an idea I want to materialize.

[Doc Yo]

 I went looking for a review of the MPM XP-47H, and found this instead:

http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/allies/us/usn/ran47h.htm

A whif for sure, and nicely done, too. Really have to build mine one of these days, but I keep thinking
about trying to convert it to a bubbletop...

[kitnut617]

I went looking for a review of the MPM XP-47H, and found this instead:

It's not too bad for a limited run injection.  There's no line up pins for the parts so a little care is needed when glueing the bits together. I think I used an aftermarket white metal prop though, the kit one didn't seem big enough in diameter and I used a True Details P-47 cockpit set too. I also used some white metal u/c legs which I got from High Planes, the plastic is very heavy as all the parts are at least twice as thick as any other injected kit and the original in u/c legs looked a little suspect.

[dy031101]

The various P-47 models and derivatives have seen the adaptation of interesting wing designs- some with powerful armaments (like 37mm cannons), others with built-in fuel tanks, and such......

What would have been produced if given the "Supermarine Attacker" treatment, I wonder?

[philp]

And all I did was put it in some markings it should have flown in.



Then, maybe, there wouldn't have been so many (Mustangs) lost to ground fire.

[Pablo1965]

And all I did was put it in some markings it should have flown in.



Then, maybe, there wouldn't have been so many (Mustangs) lost to ground fire.

Agreed

[Pablo1965]

I went looking for a review of the MPM XP-47H, and found this instead:

It's not too bad for a limited run injection.  There's no line up pins for the parts so a little care is needed when glueing the bits together. I think I used an aftermarket white metal prop though, the kit one didn't seem big enough in diameter and I used a True Details P-47 cockpit set too. I also used some white metal u/c legs which I got from High Planes, the plastic is very heavy as all the parts are at least twice as thick as any other injected kit and the original in u/c legs looked a little suspect.

This is my weakness..I love the plane.



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[pyro-manic]

I'm going to do something similar to that, but I'll be using a nacelle from a B-50/C-97 for the conversion. I've also thought about doing a Sabre-powered version. Got a couple of the very nice little Revell kits in the stash.