0.50-caliber Machine Guns by junge1

Photography • Aviation • posted on Aug 06, 2012

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These machine guns are on the left wing of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt 'Jacky's Revenge'. There are four more on the right wing. The P-47 Thunderbolt was also known as the 'Jug'. It was the largest, heaviest, and most expensive fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single piston engine. Power Plant: 1 x Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59 twin-row radial engine, 2,535hp (1,890kW). Parked at the ramp of Spaatz Field during MAAM's 19th Anniversary World War II Weekend 'A Gathering of Warbirds'. This picture was taken on 5 June 2009, Sig..