Originally Posted by
UAL T38 Phlyer
Is the airplane in your icon a P-47 with a counter-rotating liquid-cooled engine? (XP-47H)?
No, as noted it is a Martin Baker MB-5. There are, to my knowledge (faulty as it is) only one was built and it no longer exists but a fellow at Reno is building a replica. The MB-5 was a very muscular, big, great looking machine.
original
replica (wow. what an effort! The lines are not as flowing and the prop hub looks a bit off)
And this is the -47H
... a bit chunkier machine.