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Old 29th January 2012, 20:48
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Re: could a "badly smoking" P47 ...stop to smoke?

Maybe the fire went out because the pilot cut the fuel supply or switched off the engine altogether, or it blew out with the air speed. (Also some bombers had built-in extinguishers but I don't know if any fighters did).

Another possibility is that the German pilot mistook exhaust smoke for smoke from a fire, this happened a lot on both sides.
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