Aviation museums in Japan this April

[nuuumannn]

Hi Guys, a post showing some of the aircraft I saw during my recent 15-day jaunt around Japan.

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[Jeff Hunt]

Well, there are some airframes I will never see in person. Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

Jeff

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots Grant!

 

[CATCH 22]

Hi Guys, a post showing some of the aircraft I saw during my recent 15-day jaunt around Japan.
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Great photos!
Is the Shinden a replica? Never new there is one in scale 1:1 standing. I've seen the one in Udvar-Hazy (Washington DC), but it's still a wreck.

 

[nuuumannn]

Great photos!
Is the Shinden a replica? Never new there is one in scale 1:1 standing. I've seen the one in Udvar-Hazy (Washington DC), but it's still a wreck.

Yep, the Shinden is a full scale replica built for the film Godzilla Minus One. The Ki-27 is the only survivor and both are on display at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum about an hour outside Fukuoka.

 

[cammerjeff]

Good to see Japan saved a YS-11 for posterity

 

[nuuumannn]

Good to see Japan saved a YS-11 for posterity

Yup, an important type for Japan, men such as Jiro Horikoshi, who designed the Zero and Takeo Doi, who designed the Ki-61 worked on it. There are a few located at different sites around the country. I saw three in separate locations alone. This one is at Gifu Kakamigahara, Air and Space Museum.

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This one is preserved at the Hirosawa City Aviation Museum, although it is a part of the Museum of Science and Industry collection.

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[SaparotRob]

I got to fly in one. I didn't know I was flying in one of Jiro Horikoshi's designs. I'd have enjoyed the flight even more!

 

[cammerjeff]

Nice to see, I enjoyed working on them when I worked for Simmonds Airlines in the early 1980's. It was the 2nd type I was ever Taxi Qualified on. Flew on them on many occasions. I will always remember adjusting the wild frequency generators, the controller was located in the lower MLG wheel well. We used to strap ourselves to the MLG door linkage as the engines had to run at T/O power to adjust the frequency to run the electric deicers on the engine inlets and prop blades.

 

[Trav02]

Nice! Any idea what are those 2 bulges inboard of the landing gear on the ki-27? Never seen them before...rare to see it lugging a bomb, too.

 

[cammerjeff]

Nice! Any idea what are those 2 bulges inboard of the landing gear on the ki-27? Never seen them before...rare to see it lugging a bomb, too.

Those are fuel tanks, I believe they are droppable but I could be wrong on that.

 

[CATCH 22]

Yep, the Shinden is a full scale replica built for the film Godzilla Minus One. The Ki-27 is the only survivor and both are on display at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum about an hour outside Fukuoka.

Thanks for the additional info. I checked the trailer and the Shinden is there "flying". Not a fan of "Godjira"-movies but I'll check this one, don't know why is it called "minus colour".

P.S. from the next day: watched the movie yesterday night....
Not my type of cinema at all! Only for hardcore Godzilla-fans. The Shinden is shown several times: in a hangar, moving before take off, taking off (1 single time), flying and ending in the mouth of Godzilla (after a kamikaze attack).

In the last second the pilot ejected!!!!! and was saved (of course). And he saved Japan too....until next Godzilla coming.
Here is the detail about the ejection seat (in case you already ask yourselves WTF?!?)

As part of the modifications made to the Shinden for its use in Operation Wada Tsumi, Sosaku Tachibana sourced and installed a German ejection seat into the Shinden, which Koichi Shikishima (the pilot) used to eject from the aircraft immediately before crashing it into Godzilla's mouth. A plate mounted beneath the seat's headrest identifies it as a compressed air ejection seat (German: Druckluft-Schleudersitz).

More here.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots Grant!