P-47 No Guts No Glory for sale

Wish I could win the lotto and bring this back!

Would be nice to see a P47 in Europe again.

Courtesy Aircraft was fun as well.

She’s up for sale again on Courtesy, at a cool $1.9m

http://courtesyaircraft.com/aircraft/n147pf-republic-p-47d/

The ex-Alpine Fighter Collection P40K is also up for sale again by the same owner

http://courtesyaircraft.com/aircraft/n4436j-curtiss-wright-p-40k/

Hi Fellas .. Here is the actual quote from “Famous Fighters”….I still think it’s pretty funny

…”When, in January 1943, the U.S.A.A.F.’s 56th Fighter Group arrived in the United Kingdom with its massive Republic P47 Thunderbolts, R.A.F. fighter pilots banteringly suggested that their American colleagues would be able to take evasive action when attacked by undoing their harnesses and dodging about the fuselages of their huge mounts”…….

I used to work with a chap (Mike Monson) who flew RAF Thunderbolts in Egypt and the Far East

An old customer of mine used to fly Hurricanes and Thunderbolts, mainly in the Far East. His name was Pickard
(difficult to forget that name).
He trained in Canada, then went out to fly against the Japanese. He used to live in Billericay, then went out to
live with one of his children in New Zealand or Australia.

How I would love to see the old girl back in the UK…..memories. remember being at Bishop Stortford station one day after work, and seeing her come thundering over! pretty low level!….Mr Grey? any chance??!!:eagerness:

Indeed it is.

And it was a real ****** to mask up the chequerboard on the nose. At the time I doubt any of us ever thought that paint scheme would last over 30 years!

Her history is a little more complicated than in the description!

….. William Green wrote in his book “Famous Fighters” (with words to the effect)…..”the Spitfire pilots apparently fell about laughing when they saw these big things arrive in bases across England in WW11, saying how if you needed to take evasive action, you just dodged about the cockpit for a bit”….!!

I used to work with a chap (Mike Monson) who flew RAF Thunderbolts in Egypt and the Far East and I asked him about this quote, he’d never heard it but after some thought he said it would probably have worked. What he did remember was a lecture from an American who showed the RAF pilots how to remove one of the aircraft guns to use as a defensive weapon after a forced landing. Mike reckoned he couldn’t even lift one of the guns, let alone keep hold of it when fired from the hip.

Is there a guide price ?

….Having read this beautiful book, and as an interesting aside, the P47N was eventually outfitted internally and externally with an incredible fuel load of 1,266 gallons of Aviation Gasoline for the Pacific Theatre operations…..This is the equivalent of almost 29 forty four gallon drums attached here and there to the airframe….and still considered a fighting machine when the time came !!!……Hats Off to that feat…..

Always had a bit of a soft spot for NGNG. Loved seeing her fly at Duxford in 2004!

Agreed. A P-47 is sadly missing from European sky’s

I would love to see her back here,what a aircraft,powerful ,sounds lovely and more graceful than her size makes you think she should be.

….. William Green wrote in his book “Famous Fighters” (with words to the effect)…..”the Spitfire pilots apparently fell about laughing when they saw these big things arrive in bases across England in WW11, saying how if you needed to take evasive action, you just dodged about the cockpit for a bit”….!!