Republic and Chrysler ... Oh Boy

[Milton Shupe]

LOL Yup, what a hoss she was too!

Duckie did the awesome graphics on the XP47H inside and outside.

Not sure if he is available for some bumps and specs but the aircraft is set up to support them.

The Republic Experimentals are the next in the queue for FSX native conversion - the XP47H, XP47J, and XP72.

Here are a few captures of the "H" now converted.

[Roger]

Wow, what a great looking conversion!

[stovall]

At first look she almost has the look of the Bell P-59 Airacomet. Has anyone ever made one of those for FSX?

Here is an answer to my question regarding the P-59A. Looks like Ito san made one some time back.

[Milton Shupe]

LOL Stovall. Pretty much a P-47 everything except with an extended nose for the Chrysler power-plant.

[Julio Garcia]

Great News Milton. Please for P3D 4.4 too. The Best sound i have ever hear in FSX. Simply amazing. Thank you so much. Happy 2019 for you and your family

Regards from Germany

Julio

[jankees]

would be fun to do some what-if paints for it..

[Milton Shupe]

would be fun to do some what-if paints for it..

Yes Sir! That would be great.

Duckie's paint kit is in the library.

[dvj]

[Milton Shupe]

With the "H" done, now working thru the xp47j; exterior done, now going inside.

This variant has 3 variants of the classic early canopy, and 3 with a modernized one.

Showing some of the classic canopy variants here.

[Milton Shupe]

And, here's the rest of the "J" series converted. Now on to the XP72.

Here are a few shots of the custom canopy and cockpit.

[jankees]

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[delta_lima]

Thanks Milton,

When I'm back from travel, I'll get the native '72, which of all of this series, is my favourite. That long tapered radial cowl, close-cropped to a large faired spinner is a thing of beauty, so while I've enjoyed it in its portover form, the native version is much appreciated as I'm contemplating a P3D migration in the near term.

I'll add that Steve Bryant (Duckie) did a gorgeous repaint (NACA 029) for FS9 that I anticipate will work fine on the new version. That's the only one I fly it in, but if memory serves he did a few repaints for this family of releases that folks with other interests will want to look at.

Thanks Milton and team, and Steve for the past and future paints that may arrive.

Can't wait to fly this ....

dl

[MrZippy]

Flies great, Milton and Team! Will look at the speed/dive brakes tomorrow and verify.

[Duckie]

LOL Yup, what a hoss she was too!

Duckie did the awesome graphics on the XP47H inside and outside.

Not sure if he is available for some bumps and specs but the aircraft is set up to support them.

The Republic Experimentals are the next in the queue for FSX native conversion - the XP47H, XP47J, and XP72.

Here are a few captures of the "H" now converted.

Hey Milton, I'd be happy to work on bumps and specs for the "H". Unfortunately, for the next few weeks, my time will be very limited due to previous commitments. If this does not negatively affect your schedule then I'll give it a go.

And to you and yours, as well as all our SOH friends, wishing you all a healthy and prosperous 2019.

[Sundog]

Yippee! I've been missing flying these, especially the XP-47J. This is great news.

[Milton Shupe]

Hey Milton, I'd be happy to work on bumps and specs for the "H". Unfortunately, for the next few weeks, my time will be very limited due to previous commitments. If this does not negatively affect your schedule then I'll give it a go.

And to you and yours, as well as all our SOH friends, wishing you all a healthy and prosperous 2019.

Thank you Sir for the offer :-) Your choice of course.

My intention was to do all three packages (xp47h, xp47j, and xp72) and release together. I have just started on the "H" so I have a ways to go yet. :-)

If you get freed up, that would be great.

[ejoiner]

LOL Yup, what a hoss she was too!

Duckie did the awesome graphics on the XP47H inside and outside.

Not sure if he is available for some bumps and specs but the aircraft is set up to support them.

The Republic Experimentals are the next in the queue for FSX native conversion - the XP47H, XP47J, and XP72.

Here are a few captures of the "H" now converted.

Well if Duckie did the skins, they are awesome.

Now was that airplane ever operational in the military? If not, why not?

[Penzoil3]

Wow, how did I miss this ?
Thanks Mr Shupe!
Sue

[Sundog]

Thanks Milton, due to how straight the edges were I thought it was elsewhere and I had moved the paint "down" far enough fuselage wise. Now I can get this finished.
Once I get that area painted I just have to paint the rudder, finish adjusting the alpha, then complete the markings and it will be released. I plan on using the markings for Ugly Duck ATM.

[Milton Shupe]

Well if Duckie did the skins, they are awesome.

Now was that airplane ever operational in the military? If not, why not?

Hi Eric,

Duckie did the skins for the XP47H while Nigel did the skins for the XP47J and XP72.

All of their work is top shelf.

[Sundog]

Hi Milton,

Can I send you the texture? Because I've painted that area and even lower on the fuselage and it is still showing as silver.

Ken

[Milton Shupe]

Hi Milton,

Can I send you the texture? Because I've painted that area and even lower on the fuselage and it is still showing as silver.

Ken

I just ran a test painting only that area on the original template red.

See the attached zip for a copy of that template to test with.

[Sundog]

The area I'm trying to paint isn't the end of the flap area, it's the horizontal portion next to it that is part of wing root. No matter how far down the fuselage I paint, there's a silver rectangular patch there. In your picture, it would be the little blue patch between the red at the end of the flap housing and the jagged red lines you see bleeding to the right of the patch I'm talking about.

[Milton Shupe]

Well if Duckie did the skins, they are awesome.

Now was that airplane ever operational in the military? If not, why not?

A small run of P-47Ms followed the -47D on the production line, but it is desirable before discussing this to account for the designation gaps.

The XP-47E with pressurised cockpit has been mentioned above, as has the P-47G which was the designation of the Curtiss-built P-47D;

one P-47B was used to test the installation of laminar-flow wings as the XP-47F;

and the XP-47H designation covered two P-47Ds in which new 2,300 hp (1715 kW) Chrysler XIV-2220-1 inline engines were installed to give higher performance, overall length being increased by 3 ft 0 1/4 in (0.92 m) in comparison with the P-47D. This version did not materialise in production form, however, as the Chrysler engine was not put into production.

Far more radical was the XP-47J (no use was made of an I designation) which introduced a closely-cowled fan-cooled R-2800-61 engine rated at 2,100 hp (1 566 kW), and provided with a wing of lighter weight which incorporated six 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine-guns.
First flown on 26 November 1943, this experimental aircraft was the first piston-engined machine to exceed a speed of 500 mph (805 km/h) in level flight, attaining 504 mph (811 km/h) on 4 August 1944, but despite this sparkling performance production plans were abandoned in favour of an even more advanced project designated XP-72.

The XP-47K has been mentioned above, and the XP-47L resulted from structural changes in a P-47D to provide greater internal fuel capacity.