P-47 Thunderbolt, Uncrate and field assy.

[GCroyle]

Guys,

Found this one and if you have about 40 minutes to spare, you can watch a team of GI's actually uncrate and assemble a P-47 like a kit plane. And they did it all w/o any cranes or much more than hand tools, wood saws and a couple of shovels.

This is creative design and field manageable.

 

[TFucili]

That was outstanding!

 

[DonFitzwater]

That kind of "field serviceable" stuff is looooong gone. Cool video

 

[GCroyle]

Notice how casually stuff was handled, OK, now we flip the wing over on the ground, on 3 READY flip. Stand on any surface, don't worry about the paint its a Warbird not a airshow display. Did you see a torque wrench anywhere? Pilot made it look like another day at his office. The landing gear setting up was really neat too.

 

[jhenderson]

They used to call Grumman "The Ironworks". Looks like Curtis was a close 2nd.

 

[Doubleclutch]

Anybody know where you can find a couple of these crates? <G> The planes weren't meant to last forever, so I guess that explains some of the close tolerance specs.