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P-47 PYLON RACER???

Old 10-09-2008, 11:59 PM
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I am progressing on my TF GS P-47. First what a great kit to build. I am at the point where I need to decided on what it is to look like. I have seen so many beautifully done P-47, BUT I want something different. I have been to the Reno Air Races and loved every second. My only wish is that a P-47 would race (IT's MY FAVORITE PLANE). My mind is going crazy about the paint job. I want something cool like the 2008 Rare Bear paint job. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK. How should a P-47 look to go race in the Unlimited Gold class??

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Old 10-10-2008, 11:21 AM
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i did a search and couldn't find any p-47 racer. i'm not saying one never existed but i couldn't find one. if you find one let us know, i'm also a 47 fan!
Old 10-10-2008, 12:18 PM
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I know that one never existed. So I plan to be the first. Sometimes you have do be defferent.
Old 10-10-2008, 08:16 PM
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Its not a very streamlined airplane, I don't think one would do well in racing in real life.
Old 10-10-2008, 08:31 PM
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it would from a 40,000ft drop
Old 10-10-2008, 08:42 PM
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Nevermind I give up. I do care if it would be streamlined or competive. Close your eyes and picture that huge JUG on its wing tip pulling G's around a pylon. I see it in a Ferrari Red with yellow flames coming from out from the cowls flaps going to the tail.
Old 10-10-2008, 08:52 PM
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I just checked my Raceplane Tech book, (Bearcats and Corsairs) and it shows a photo of a P-47 back in 1947. Bill Odom entered it in the Bendix race and it sprung a fuel leak just before the event. So there went the chance to race it! Checkerboard cowling and wing tanks, it would have been cool.
Old 10-10-2008, 08:54 PM
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Is their anyway you can take a picture of the picture you have and send it my way?


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Old 10-10-2008, 09:00 PM
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I'll try, as I don't have my camera but I will try to scan it. Cross your fingers!
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Old 10-10-2008, 09:23 PM
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Jason, I can send you a copy next week as soon as I get my digital camera back if you like. This copy is pretty bad. Richard
Old 10-10-2008, 09:40 PM
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Here's a link to a shot of Odom's P-47. There may be more if you poke around this website.

http://www.airrace.com/1947%20NAR%20.html

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THANK YOU FOR THE PICTURE YOU ARE THE MAN!!!! Now I just have to find out the colors. Looking at all thoes pictures breaks my heart. How mant P-39 and P-38 are left now??? My friend who is giving me my flight training had a chance to but a Corsair in the 60's for a woping 5000.00 in airworthy condition. I don't think you could even buy a tire for one for that price. I wonder if 40 years from now planes like the F-14 and many others will end up in the private sector. I doubt it but its nice to dream. I think the P-47 would have done just fine at RENO. The P-51 is a great plane but the P-47 was their first proveing itself in combat!
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ORIGINAL: iflyg450
How mant P-39 and P-38 are left now???
The Warbird Registry shows approximately 35 surviving P-39's and about 40 P-38's. However, only two of those Airacobras, and around 6 Lightnings, are currently flying. Interestingly enough the ex-Bill Odum YP-47M "Reynold's Bombshell" still survives with the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, CA. Flyable but not flown, see pic below for what it looks like today. There have been two P-47 Thunderbolts that have turned pylons that I'm aware of. In the late '70's Lefty Gardner raced the CAF P-47N at Reno and in the mid '90's Bruce Lockwood turned the pylons in a P-47D at the Phoenix 500. Neither aircraft sported a race paint job though.

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Brian, thanks for the find, that's a great site. Man to have lived 60 years ago with a big bank roll, the toys I'd have..

iflyg450, it will look great as a model of Bill Odom's plane,, PLEASE keep posting!! I'd love to see the finished plane.
Old 10-12-2008, 11:45 AM
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Is this what you have in mind? Dick is building this 1/4 scale P47F with a laminar wing and enough go power to melt the paint off. Should be done early next year.
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What paint job will it get? It looks Great!
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He hasn't came up with a final paint design yet but knowing Dick it will be wild
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Link us the prototype video, it worth seeing!![sm=thumbs_up.gif]

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