P 47 Cockpit Floor

Upon reading the review regarding trumpeters p 47 bubbletop it is mentioned that the corrugated floor changed roughly after the 25 to the flat version 26 and on.

P 47 cockpit floor.

In early production p 47 s the vast majority of the cockpit section was taken straight from the p 43. Looking through factory drawings i found that all bubbletop models had smooth floors and the last one p 47 fitted with corrugated floor was d 23 razorback. 4 aug 13 2020 2. Below is the factory smooth floor drawing mark where we can clearly see that it was installed beginning from d 25 model it was one of the feature of rearranged bubbletop cockpit.

The subject of cockpit colours of the p 47 seems to have thus far defied conclusive analysis. When fully loaded the p 47 weighed up to eight tons making it one. Aug 13 2020 2. The cockpit in the hasegawa kit has a smooth floor characteristic of the p 47d 30 and later models.

Been trying to research which model p 47 s had corrugated cockpit floors and which had flat or smooth floors. Ive also read on this site in the past that it was from the 27 28 and onwards. An inside look of a p 47 thunderbolt. Below is the factory smooth floor drawing mark where we can clearly see that it was installed beginning from d 25 model.

The republic p 47 thunderbolt is a world war ii era fighter aircraft produced by the american aerospace company republic aviation from 1941 through 1945. Looking through factory drawings i found that all bubbletop models had smooth floors wasn t corrugated one for early bubbletops and the last one p 47 fitted with corrugated floor was d 23 razorback. Surviving p 47s and contemporary photos show a dark green shade in the cockpit similar or possibly equal to dull dark green. Seems to be no consensus some places i read everything up until the p 47d 26 models had corrugated and later had smooth floor other sources say they were corrugated up until the d 30 model.

I own quite a few books on the p 47 and only. However for some unknown reason the mock up prototype and the first three production p 47b aircraft were built with an unusual and difficult to use fixed canopy equipped with a forward opening door not greatly unlike the p 39 and early hawker typhoon. However schilling s aircraft was a d 25 so it was necessary to add corrugations to the cockpit floor.