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• May 21, 2018

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Mitsubishi T-2 trainer.
Adopted the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca's RT.172 Adour engine.

 

• May 21, 2018

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Ki-87 close up of turbo installation.

 

• May 21, 2018

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Ki-115 suicide attacker.

 

• Aug 19, 2018

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Yokosuka MXY6 glider.Sept-45

 

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• Aug 19, 2018

• #625

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johnbr said:

J7W Shinden-Sept-45

Click to expand...

That's not a Kyushu J7W, it's a Yokosuka MXY6 glider.

 

• Aug 19, 2018

• #626

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N1K1-Jc (Fighter-Bomber

 

• Aug 19, 2018

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Some still miss the US insignia for the captured and returned Hien.


Source: 飛燕、或る戦闘機（川崎キ61三式戦改飛燕）の戦後史The Study of the KAWASAKI ki-61 Fighter HIEN

 

• Aug 20, 2018

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• Aug 27, 2018

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Kyushu Q1W1 Tokai-Mizutani airfield

 

• Aug 27, 2018

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• Aug 29, 2018

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Yokosuka, L3Y, Nell

 

• Aug 29, 2018

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Yokosuka, Mxy-7, Ohka

 

• Aug 29, 2018

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• Aug 29, 2018

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Kawasaki, Ki-78,

 

• Aug 29, 2018

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• Aug 29, 2018

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The Jungles of Canada

A new one to me

 

• Aug 29, 2018

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• Aug 30, 2018

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• Aug 30, 2018

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While the KI-78 was impressive, it was only used as a high-speed project and only one airframe flew.

The photos posted above weren't of it's capture by U.S. forces, just as these two aren't, either.


However, this is a photo of the KI-78 after being captured by U.S. forces in 1945.

 

• Aug 30, 2018

• #640

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Not the KI-78 but one of the destroyed was reproduced in the post war.
The Koken long-range monoplane.


Source: 知られざる軍用機開発（下巻）酣燈社 (Unknown Military Aircraft Development Vol.2 by Kantohsya)


Source: 航研機左


Source: 航研機正面

 

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