Best Foam 1/12 warbird P-47?
 

Looking to fly combat 1/12 warbirds and want a P-47 best for the money?

RE: Best Foam 1/12 warbird P-47?
 

JKAerotech.

RE: Best Foam 1/12 warbird P-47?
 

http://www.jkaerotech.com/

I flew their P-47N during the 2003 season and did fairly well with it.

RE: Best Foam 1/12 warbird P-47?
 

Vote #3 for JKAerotech. If you follow the directions, you have one incredibly tough plane. If you add carbon fiber reinforcement to the leading edge like I did, you have a tank. Here is the result of a nose to nose mid air I had with an old JDBAerotec Bearcat, both of us at full throttle. Mine is the one still intact.

RE: Best Foam 1/12 warbird P-47?
 

That was a great hit. Man, we were looking for parts of that Bearcat for a while if I remember. I shoot that picture of Combatman hitting Earl in 2002 at a contest in Montrose, PA.

The JKA planes are hard to beat on toughness. But nothing is indestructable. Here's the end of one of my JKA P-47Ns:

RE: Best Foam 1/12 warbird P-47?
 

Btw, that plane had the fuse cut in half a couple of times. There is a quick and easy mod to reduce that. If you cut an S-curve on the end of the 2mm coro sheeting, you reduce the stress riser, and the fuse is less likely to break all at once at the end of the coro as mine did. I think the newer kits also come with a re-inforcement that you cut in to the side of the fuse that would also prevent or lessen this kind of thing. I actually was able to glue the fuse back together, it's just foam after all. The wing, however, was toast. The damage is much worse than it looks like in the picture.

Also, in fareness, I also went heat-to-head against a fiberglass fuse KI-64 at Nats. Full throttle, nearly head on, at low altitude. I flew out with barely a hitch, he went in hard. Nothing is invinceable, and nothing withstands t-bones like the one that got me above, but the JKA kits are about as strong as you can get, and for the money there is nothing close.