P47 in a box - IKEA you not.

[old man emu]

Ever wondered how they managed to ship hundreds of such an awkwardly shaped objects like fighter planes from the USA to Europe? This video shows the ingenuity of the aircraft manufacturers in first fitting a plane into two boxes, and then using the boxes to make a workbench to assemble the plane. The idea was to be able to assemble the plane at its destination without cranes and such.