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Old 01-29-2012, 03:13 AM
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What plane is this? Looks like an old P-47 with an inline engine and P-40 tail?
Its and XP-47H


Which had a Chrysler XI-2220-11 water-cooled inline 16-cylinder inverted vee engine

The follow up being the XP-72 aka Super Thunderbolt


Which had a air cooled PW R-4360 that had 28 cylinders


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That being a pilots's 'perception' of what is going on can be very different from what is 'actually' going on.
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