Really geeky Jug question

[Onan the Clumsy]

I saw a P47 on the ramp at TKI once and on the left hand side, behind the cockpit, there looked like there was a door big enough to have a secret room behind it.

What is that? Just a little cargo space? Battery sorage area like the Spit? Could you ride in it?

[Man-on-the-fence]

Are you sure it wasnt a Skyraider?

[effortless]

I think that you must be wrong. I have been round and in a P47 several times and I have never seen a door in the side. I think that you mus have seen a Skyraider.

[Jhieminga]

Where's TKI?

There is a Wildcat in the US that has a small compartment in the rear fuselage which will fit two persons. Door is on the righthand side though! Never heard of a P-47 with that capability.

[Onan the Clumsy]

Oh the shame

Do I have to change my ID now?


I guess it must've been a Skyraider, though I could've swore it was a jug.



TKI is McKinney Texas, jut north of Dallas.


So is it just a storge compartment?

[Archimedes]

Onan,

Of a sort - storage for people...

While waiting for a Skyraider guru to give the exact answer, IIRC, the AD-3 version of Skyraider was the first to have the compartment (15 AD-3N being built), followed by the AD-4N (the 'N' standing for night attack). The compartment housed an ECM operator and radar plotter (again, IIRC from Peter C Smith's book on the Skyraider). If you go here, you should see the door in all its glory...
(I think I am right in saying that the markings on this particular aircraft, a warbird, are not correct for the AD-4N, but I could very well be wrong).

[effortless]

Theres always a Skyraider flying at Duxford shows. It is HUGE. I would have thought that you could carry your own ground crew in it.

[Onan the Clumsy]

That's it then because this thing was massive.

[Jhieminga]

[jumpseater]

If its the 'door' in the upper pic (of the razorback P47), thats the Tubocharger exit point, .....gets anorak.......closes stage door left..... ps theres another on the other side at exactly the same point as a mirror image,...... must get out more......