Gabreski's P-47 COMPLETE

[Centurion3RTR]

Superb Steve, beautiful job job mate. Big five on the way too.

Have fun, John

[colin m]

Great result Steve. I've never seen a P 47 in that finish before. Nice one.

Colin M..

[Guest]

Fantastic Steve, What a result.

Andy

[mossiepilot]

Cracking P47 Steve, a beautiful looking build.

5 stars mate.

Tony.

[stona]

Brilliant build, love the camouflage job. Not much room below the belly tank is there? Quite the contrast between the size of the P47 and the 109. The 109 seems to look small next to most other contemporary fighters at the best of times.

Hi Joe,

I've been trying to find out what the clearance was on the real thing because as you say it's not much on the model. Finally,having ploughed through pages and pages of 8th AF documents pertaining to drop tanks and their fitting I found the answer in a report on bomb loads!

The clearance was about 4 inches.

It doesn't sound like it but I do enjoy this sort of research in original sources

Cheers

Steve