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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
Not many aircraft of today age could do that.
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The only one that could even come close to the old P-47 is perhaps the A-10. Altough what the Air Force would do to a Warthawg pilot that hit a telephone pole......
It's kind of amazing just how much damage that the P-47 could take and still return to base...there are photos of flak damage that would have sent a F-16 into the ground and yet the Jug kept flying. Entire cylinders shot off off the engine and it still kept grinding. It may have not been the fastest, longest-ranged or best looking fighter of WWII....but I think that if I wasa pilot back then, then this is the fighter that I would want to be in.