The P-47 Thunderbolt and its Pratt & Whitney R-2800 air-cooled radial engine in one of WWII aviation history’s most extreme fighter aircraft survival stories. In June 1943, Lieutenant Robert Johnson’s Republic P-47 absorbed three full attack passes from an Fw 190 — twenty-one cannon shell impacts and over two hundred bullet holes — and the engine never stopped. What kept it flying wasn’t luck.
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Sources drawn from combat mission reports, Eighth Air Force unit records, and published pilot accounts.
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It brought the pilot home, which is exactly what it was designed to do.
Lucky piolet
Great engineering!!!
I have heard of this P- 47 , They should have put it a museum.. ?
But God
So the engine had 9 cylinders in each circle with 2 circles. If any one or more of those cylinders fails, the engine continues to run until it runs completely out of oil to lubricate those remaining cylinders and the crank.
I read it. Great stuff.
Read Robert Johnson’s book Thunderbolt for a full account of his extraordinary time during WW2 it’s truly amazing what he accomplished