P-47D "Hairless Joe" sold

[Steve Rister]

Hi Everyone,

Ok, maybe I just noticed! Wondering who the new owner is and where the
jug will be based. Someone on here knows!

Stephen

[Jack Cook]

Tillamook, Oregon.
Why Jack Erickson would sell one then buy another is a mystery to me

[Steve Rister]

Thank you Jack, I hope it remains a flyer.

[mlenoch]

It is a very nice flyer.
VL

[Jack Cook]

Hope it stays that way has that place is corrosion central!

[Lynn Allen]

It is a very nice flyer.
VL

Do we have time in Ole' Joe by chance? How does it compare to your Mustang??

TIA,

Lynn

[mustangdriver]

I was a member of the restoration team of that aircraft. I have a ton of pics if anyone would want to see them

[Jim MacDonald]

Mustangdriver,

If anyone would want to see them? Um, I think that would be a hearty, Yes Please. And I don't even particularly like AAF planes.

Thanks,

Mac

[robkamm]

please post them. like you really needed to ask.

[mlenoch]

Yes, very nice flyer:
Smoothest R2800 that I've flown - low vibration & very natural power response - no lags going up or down in power.
Stick & rudder - again very harmonized, felt very natural in the amount of control deflection input & the aircraft response.
Surprisingly high roll rate for the large airframe!! Stalls are straight forward with good warning in airframe shudder.
Very stable in straight & level for photo flights. It would go where you wanted just by 'thinking'....no need for dramatic control inputs...minor correction got it done.
Super stable on landing. once on the ground tracks dead straight like a 4-8-4 locomotive!
Remember, these comments are for this airframe....not all P-47s.
VL

[mustangdriver]

I was 13 when I started at Air Heritage. Here are some of the early pics of us moving her in, and working on her. I will post more as I scan them in.

[richkolasa]

Aw crap! I was really hoping it would wind up at Pungo...

Rich

[Jerry O'Neill]

Yes, very nice flyer:
Smoothest R2800 that I've flown - low vibration & very natural power response - no lags going up or down in power.
Stick & rudder - again very harmonized, felt very natural in the amount of control deflection input & the aircraft response.
Surprisingly high roll rate for the large airframe!! Stalls are straight forward with good warning in airframe shudder.
Very stable in straight & level for photo flights. It would go where you wanted just by 'thinking'....no need for dramatic control inputs...minor correction got it done.
Super stable on landing. once on the ground tracks dead straight like a 4-8-4 locomotive!
Remember, these comments are for this airframe....not all P-47s.
VL

Vlado,
"4-8-4"!
You're a man after my own heart!
Jerry

[richkolasa]

Yes, very nice flyer:
Smoothest R2800 that I've flown - low vibration & very natural power response - no lags going up or down in power.
Stick & rudder - again very harmonized, felt very natural in the amount of control deflection input & the aircraft response.
Surprisingly high roll rate for the large airframe!! Stalls are straight forward with good warning in airframe shudder.
Very stable in straight & level for photo flights. It would go where you wanted just by 'thinking'....no need for dramatic control inputs...minor correction got it done.
Super stable on landing. once on the ground tracks dead straight like a 4-8-4 locomotive!
Remember, these comments are for this airframe....not all P-47s.
VL

Vlado,
"4-8-4"!
You're a man after my own heart!
Jerry

Amen! Another of my favorite subjects to photograph (would love to get UP "844"/"8444", the only Steam Locomotive running never retired from service!).

Rich

[Lynn Allen]

Yes, very nice flyer:
Smoothest R2800 that I've flown - low vibration & very natural power response - no lags going up or down in power.
Stick & rudder - again very harmonized, felt very natural in the amount of control deflection input & the aircraft response.
Surprisingly high roll rate for the large airframe!! Stalls are straight forward with good warning in airframe shudder.
Very stable in straight & level for photo flights. It would go where you wanted just by 'thinking'....no need for dramatic control inputs...minor correction got it done.
Super stable on landing. once on the ground tracks dead straight like a 4-8-4 locomotive!
Remember, these comments are for this airframe....not all P-47s.
VL

Vlado,
"4-8-4"!
You're a man after my own heart!
Jerry

Amen! Another of my favorite subjects to photograph (would love to get UP "844"/"8444", the only Steam Locomotive running never retired from service!).

Rich

She came through our town over the summer and made a brief stop. She gave a few vert's a departed.