Japanese Gliders

[Micdrow]

Small article on Japanese Gliders

Enjoy!!!!

 

[B-17engineer]

Ha I never knew the Japanese had gliders (cept for Ohka training) till this.......did they have ones that carried troops cause those looked like single seaters

 

[Shinpachi]

Gliders were and are popular with local students.

Two German instructors came to teach aviation basics to Japanese students.
Our students at that time were good at German.
"PHOTO WEEKLY" Sept 1941 issue introduced details.
Copies attached below.

Their names were
Guster Bensyu(Aviation Model Manager)
Carl Neat(Rotenberg National Aviation Model School Chief Instructor)
Sorry if mistakenly spelled.

Japan Soaring Club today.
JAPAN SOARING CLUB

 

[Wayne Little]

Cool stuff you Guys!

 

[Micdrow]

Great follow up Shinpachi, the magazine article has some great pictures. Many thanks.

 

[Shinpachi]

This is a good opportunity for me to know our aviation history too.
Thanks.

A senior lady refers to an old glider in her recent blog.
Please let me introduce.

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When I was arranging my old family photos today, a photo of my brother in his young days came out.
My brother and I have a lot of years apart.

He was nineteen years old and a Medical University student then.
I know he was joining a glider club and hovering over the sky on board the glider of the left photograph.

He is still keeping the youth by riding a horse or something with which people are not so familiar...

The Pacific War started and, soon after the photograph was taken, he joined naval preparatory training course to lose a lot of his friends in Kamikaze missions afterwards.

When I said "In my recent sightseeing trip to Guam and Saipan, I saw Zero fighters being sunk in the sea." , he commented gently "Don't see such things. It's pitiful." and didn't even try to see my photos.

He was just about to join the Kamikaze if the war should have continued a little longer.
Missing his gone friends, he says he can't understand why we, younger generations, can see such relics for the purpose of sightseeing.

Today, I have glanced at the emotional difference between those who experienced the war and othres who do not know it.

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original site: Misa's blog

 

[Micdrow]

Great info there Shinpachi, very interesting and many thanks.

 

[Shinpachi]

You are welcome Micdrow
Your new thread always attract my attention.

I might say Gliders are as popular as baseball for the students here.

A birdman contest is held at the Lake Biwa every year.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wik8YbmPkKA

3D design/flight simulation software for the contest(free)
Bird_Simu

 

[Flyboy2]

Dang. We should start doing that in America. Personally I like gliders a ton more than baseball

 

[sagindragin]

hi shinpachi,

i am trying to locate all the good stuff on the JACAR site, i have found several pdf's on aircraft but i am sure there are more, have you any clues,

the ones found include,

Ki10
P1y
Ki21
A6m3
a7m
Ki1

 

[Shinpachi]

Hi sagindragin. I've just confirmed as follows.


Item Reference Code

Ki10 C01007101300
P1y A03032074400
A03032144800
Ki21 C01004713600
C01004713700
A6m3 A03032271200
a7m A03032272900
A03032110400
Ki1 ?

Addition

Ki2 C01007099300
Ki36 C01004936500
Ki44 A03032181800
ME109E A03032230800
N1K2J A03032263000
A03032263100
A03032263200
Ha8I C01004104400
Ha25 C01004945200

Will you let me know ref. code of Ki1 if you grasped?
Thank you.

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Hi Flyboy2.

If you may need more information about the Birdman Contest, I'll be happy to check it. They are crazy enough to enjoy the life!

 

[Micdrow]

cool info there Shinpachi, maybe if I get a chance I might make a few into pdf files. Many thanks

 

[sagindragin]

hi shinpachi,

opp's wrong finger trouble, should have read Ki2.

thank you very much for the others, is the photo weekly on the site, or do you have to go there to see it, if on the site, how do i find it.

hi micdrow,

already doing it, and removing the text parts(japanese), when i have finished i will post them on here.

 

[Micdrow]

hi micdrow,

already doing it, and removing the text parts(japanese), when i have finished i will post them on here.

Many thanks in advance John.

All the best
Paul

 

[Shinpachi]

The Photo Weekly Reference Codes are confirmed
from A06031059600 to A06031094600

The code number steps every 100 like A06031059600, A06031059700, A06031059800....A06031094600
Totally 352issues

I tried access with the code from English page and failed as there are no service for the data yet. Though this is my guess, the best way will be you directly access the Japanese home page of JACAR and type the code in search box and click the search.
I don't think there should be any problem to access directly to the data except the garbled characters on the way.

English page

 

[sagindragin]

hi shinpachi,

the codes will do it nicely, already played with the home page, but your guidance proves i was doing it right,
thank you very much.
playing with the images in psp7, the one with the P1Y, as they are like blueprints, i am changing them to negative image, details in black with white background, they seem to appear much clearer that way.

 

[Shinpachi]

Hi sagindragin,

You have already been advancing. It seems I worried too much.
Congratulations! and Good night here(It's just 1:00am)

 

[sagindragin]

hi shinpachi,

goodnight my friend and thank you.


hi micdrow,

here are the links to the first two i have done.

Ki10,
RapidShare: Easy Filehosting

Ki44,
RapidShare: Easy Filehosting


i have put them here, so that you can upload to your site if you wish and put them under the correct headings (manuals ?)

will post more as i do them.

 

[Micdrow]

Many thanks sagindragin, I made them into pdf's. Files are located here. Again many thanks guys.

Other Mechanical Systems Tech. - Aircraft of World War II - Warbird Forums

 

[sagindragin]

hi shinpachi,

i have reason to believe there are the following manuals in the archive,

F1M
E7K2
E16A
E13A
E14Y

or it could be me going crazy, they might not be online yet.