THE P-47 WAS DEFINITELY THE BIGGEST, heaviest, and most expensive single-engine fighter airplane used during WW II. It had a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine and a huge bomb capacity. Great range was also an attribute and the airplane was able to do major damage to any ground insurgencies. P-47s were also used as escorts and did quite well when employed in air-to-air combat. A bubble top canopy appeared on later versions, which appealed to pilots because it helped with visibility and made it easier to shoot those green planes out of the sky. Hobby People embraces history's dogfights and has brought both the P-47 and Zero to life as park flyers. The P-47 is our subject today, however, and word on the street is that the Zero will soon be reviewed in our pages. The P-47 is available ready to fly (RTF) with a 2.4GHz guidance system or as a receiver-ready (RR) model to which you just need to add your own radio gear and battery. The latter was reviewed as I already have an Airtronics Aquila-6 and a receiver ready to go. A 1650mAh LiPo battery is intended for the P-47, which is on the Hobby People site (hobbypeople.net) and is very affordable. This is pretty much an "open-the-box-and-fly" model with very few final assembly steps required. Very few parts are included separately and this low parts count is aimed at folks like me who have little time to build and just want to fly.
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