We we lucky enough to have a huge warbird show in our area for a number of years. At one they featured better than 80 P51's. Too bad it was discontinued. One of the locals had a P47, the Big Ass Bird II. It has since changed hands (and name) and now resides in Texas I believe. The sound of those big radial engines makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Great picture too.
The original engine on the 'D' model was a Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59 Double Wasp turbocharged 2,800-cubic-inch 18-cylinder twin-row radial. It generated 2,535-hp for a maximum speed of 433-mph at 30,000 feet.
Even better, there are no mufflers.
Standing right next to this aircraft with the engine running is a primal experience. This is a machine designed solely for the purpose of imposing its will...
Those pines in the back are just outa-the-park perfection of your eye, time, space, movement composition.....seeing scale in the background of the perfect-pines vs the mountain and our protagonist is a greatly done - is the cornerstone of perfection