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The P-47B was ordered in September 1940 and first flew on
6 May 1941. This was before the RAF encountered the FW190
on 27 September 1941 and over a year before one was captured,
in July 1942. The first production P-47B was in December
1941. Rather hard to see the P-47 as built specifically unless
the US was given all the information in 1940, and knew despite
the major engine cooling problems the FW190A had that the
program would be continued.

First combat was 10 March 1943. This was the P47C. The P47B
models appear to have only been used for training.

So please tell us all the major changes in the P-47 series after
1940, new wing?, new fuselage? The fundamental reality is the
P-47 was designed without any input from Focke Wulf. Then
came the inevitable wartime improvements, which all fighters
went through, or is the claim the FW190A-1 is the same as
the FW190A-14?


Geoffrey Sinclair
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