Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (60 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

I know the twin-lens reflex cameras as well as Leica-type ones were popular in the postwar Japan but did not know so much as these pictures.
Nationwide scenes on a day dated November 3, 1955.

At the photography event in Sendai for Keiko Takahashi - Japanese representative for Miss Universe in 1955.
This girl is not Keiko.
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This is Keiko Takahashi.
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Event in Tokyo with unknown models
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In Shiga, near Kyoto
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In Osaka
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Source: Photo Record of November 3 (1956)

This is my TLR camera built by former Nakajima Aircraft's Musashi Plant in 1950
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Taking a few weeks, I have overhauled this old camera to work again.
This has been a good chance to learn old technologies.

Old paper fragments to adjust focus

Reassembled

Testing focus

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Review of old picture.
Prime Minister of Burma Ba Maw (1893-1977) by Fuji color film in 1944.

Source: Press Photo (Jan.1944)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

A guy who has stereotype Japanese face for the westerners in 1942.

Source: Photo Culture (Aug.1942)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

A day of a float plane base in the southern front in 1942.

Source; Photo Culture (Dec.1942)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Making a wall poster in 1943.

Sectioning and enlarging pictures

Coaing each piece with the waterproof and fireproof liquid

Mounting work on the wall

Source: Photo Culture (April 1943)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Fluid test equipments for Japanese aircraft in 1944.

Wind tunnel

Building models

Test tank

Source: Photo Science (Aug.1944)

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese scale modellers in 1941.

Source: Sky (May/Oct.1941)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Ente-type scale model drawings introduced to the Japanese modellers in 1942.
The center of gravity is set at around 1/3 between the main wing and the canard.

Source: Sky (Feb.1942)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

With such social background, here came the IJN's Ente-type experimental MXY-6 intending a high speed plane in 1943.

1/6 wind tunnel model

Experimental MXY-6

Source: FAOW

 

[Wurger]

It looks like the way to the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden

 

[Shinpachi]

Type Ki-27 "Kitakaze" single seat fighter.

A nickname "Kitakaze (North Wind)" of which I have never heard is given to this Ki-27 scale model by Masaaki Kitaguchi in 1942. If there had been an improved version of Ki-27 with 3-blade propeller and retractable landing gear, it might have looked like this. Looks a good job.

Source: Sky (Nov.1942)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

A captured Curtiss Kittyhawk P-40D in the Mindanao Island in 1942.

Source: Sky (July 1942)