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Originally Posted by rob
I have had a few thoughs on the KFS P-47s: Would not some loyal but 'enterprising' member of the KFS establishment use one (or more) aircraft for photo recon purposes? Same removing the ammo for the guns and putting a photographic equipment or some type of under wing photo pod. Even designing non-droppable fuel tanks for extended range. Just a couple of thoughts.
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The best is to base the air frame of the P-47N, a special long-range escort version. More fuel, different wings with internal fuel capacity, more powerful engine, automatic pilot, homing radio. It carried 1266 gallons of fuel with internal and external tanks used, with a range of around 2350 miles.
Now for photo recon as you mentioned some sort of under wing store would have to be developed, as all of the internal areas that would normally house a camera is already taken. Any sort of under wing pod would have to be rigid as to provide the best possible camera stability.