Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

At 08:40 in the morning of April 24, 1937, Koken's long range experimental plane appeared in the airfield of Haneda, Tokyo for test.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (April 1937)

 

[SaparotRob]

That is a really cool airplane.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

At 08:40 in the morning of April 24, 1937, Koken's long range experimental plane appeared in the airfield of Haneda, Tokyo for test.

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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (April 1937)

Highly influenced by Heinkel designs.

 

[Shinpachi]

Highly influenced by Heinkel designs.

Which one?

 

[Shinpachi]

Koken long range experimental plane.
This is a motorized soarer.

Source: Machineries (Sept. 1938)

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Which one?

Maybe not one specialy. The forward part is reminiscent of the He-70, as the landing gear (albeit bigger), and the rudder and fin looks like the one of the He-111, at least from that angle.

 

[Shinpachi]

He-70

Source:

File:Heinkel He 70 Blitz.svg - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

 

[Shinpachi]

He-111

Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...einkel_He_111_H-1_3-view_line_drawing.svg.png

 

[Shinpachi]

Motor was Kawasaki BMW v12 800hp Ha-9.

Source: 航研機 - Wikipedia

 

[Shinpachi]

Kawasaki Ki-32 with BMW Ha-9.
This may look Heinkel.

Source: 九八式軽爆撃機 - Wikipedia

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

 

[AMCKen]

Similar idea as:

Vickers Wellesley - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Shinpachi]

Naming and departure ceremony of Asahi Shimbun's Kamikaze-go for 25,000 kilometer flight between Asia and Europe takes place at Haneda airfied on April 1, 1937.

* Kamikaze-go is a civilian version of Mitsubishi Army Type 97 command reconnaissance aircraft Ki-15.

Prince Higashikuni hands over a naming document to Asahi Shinbun's president Sei-ichi Ueno

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (April 1937)

 

[Shinpachi]

The future war Japanese war painter Ken Matsuzoe imagined in 1942.

Source: Overview of the Holy War - Greater East Asia War (1942)

 

[SaparotRob]

It's got a 1930's Popular Mechanics magazine cover aesthetic to it.

 

[Zippythehog]

The future war Japanese war painter Ken Matsuzoe imagined in 1942.

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Source: Overview of the Holy War - Greater East Asia War (1942)

The large armored vehicles look like a micro game I had years ago called OGRE. It was a combat game against a robot tank.

Ogre (board game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SaparotRob]

The large armored vehicles look like a micro game I had years ago called OGRE. It was a combat game against a robot tank.

Ogre (board game) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I played Ogre! Do you remember a spin-off game where the robots were especially stupid?

 

[Zippythehog]

I played Ogre! Do you remember a spin-off game where the robots were especially stupid?

GEV??

 

[SaparotRob]

Is that the one with Jack Boppers, Teeny Boppers and Bopper Control/Bopper production Centers?