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Old 12-17-2010, 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly View Post
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.
Yeah but the A-10 is built like those old aircraft when you consider it armored bath tub with wings...
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