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eBay: Japanese airplanes and other hardware.
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Nice shots! Thanks for sharing.
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now that's a rare one....
Love that plane. A most beautiful twin-engine transport. Wish someone would kit it!
Good shot! Thanks for sharing.
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That is a good catch, Graeme!
Not sure how they over-looked the missing "fences" on the wings!
Not sure how they over-looked the missing "fences" on the wings!
Doesn't look anything like Val...someone needs glasses....
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Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, Albuquerque 1950 (see also post #139 for dif view)
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Nakajima B5N2 Kate Bomber, Japan 1945
great shot, not seen that one before.
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BMW 003A diagram as used to create Nakajima Kikka engines
It's a scan from my copy of " 'Kikka' The technological Verification of the First Japanese Jet Engine Ne-20 " by Miki Press.
To be exact, this picture presents Cross-section of a BMW 003 which is on display in some Japanese museum, which one I can't recall unfortunately.
This cross-section was a part of a shipment carried by I-29 submarine, which unfortunately for the Japanese, was sunk after it left Singapore (submarine stopped there to resupply). For your interest, I-29 also carried an Me 262 fighter stored in boxes.
Interestingly, this cross-section survived only because a certain officer (Commander Eichi Iwaya) left the ship, with some of the documents, while in Singapore. It was taken as a safety measure as the South China Sea was considered unsafe at that time. That turned out to be true.
Based only on this and previous work with the Ne-12, Kūgishō managed to continue the development of their main project, the Ne-20 jet engine.
One thing should be said here, Japanese did a really great job of creating their own jet engine ... basing on just a single drawing like this.
To be exact, this picture presents Cross-section of a BMW 003 which is on display in some Japanese museum, which one I can't recall unfortunately.
This cross-section was a part of a shipment carried by I-29 submarine, which unfortunately for the Japanese, was sunk after it left Singapore (submarine stopped there to resupply). For your interest, I-29 also carried an Me 262 fighter stored in boxes.
Interestingly, this cross-section survived only because a certain officer (Commander Eichi Iwaya) left the ship, with some of the documents, while in Singapore. It was taken as a safety measure as the South China Sea was considered unsafe at that time. That turned out to be true.
Based only on this and previous work with the Ne-12, Kūgishō managed to continue the development of their main project, the Ne-20 jet engine.
One thing should be said here, Japanese did a really great job of creating their own jet engine ... basing on just a single drawing like this.
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