Stumbled across this while screwing around on google - fascinating to read a contemporary account of the P-47, back when the nickname wasn’t Jug, but ‘Gargantua’…
I really enjoyed that, neat find.
Makes me want to go back and read some more back issues from the 40’s to 60’s.
Thanks for posting the link !
Thanks Doogs!
I spent an hour just sitting and paging thru the entire magazine. I found it very interesting to look at the advertisements, and other stories from that time. Very interesting!
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Nice find! 
I never realized the T-bolt could do 400+ mph.
It certainly doesn’t look like what you’d expect a speedy fighter to look like.
I found it especially interesting that the forerunner of today’s modern electromagnetic railgun was contemplated back in '42. The problem back then is the same one we have today, lack of compact high density capacitors to power the gun and the requisite high speed/high power switching apparatus. The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke even postulated an electromagnetic launching ramp built up the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains to put payloads into orbit in 1947. This ramp would have been thirty miles long and taken four Hanford style nuclear reactors to power it.
Pat.
Check early to mid 1950s copies of Popular Mechanics;
advertisements for B-29 gunner sighting systems, German WWI machine guns.
All sorts of interesting stuff !
Thanks for the link…some interesting stuff…liked the anti tank gun article as well. Wonder how many unsuspecting G.I.s went into battle thinking the 88 was not all that great based on this article.
Thanks for that DoogsATX, it seems funny NOT seeing a website listed on printed material now!
With a rated altitude of around 8000m there’s no suprise it’s soo fast. Down low it didn’t have any jaw dropping performance (not slow by any means) but not really fast either. There’s a fair bit of ‘propaganda’ in the article but still interesting.