Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (3 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

Will they attempt to restore it to flight worthiness?

They will do so even for static display. That is engineer's pride

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima A1N2 type 3 'NI-203' IJN Kaga Japan 1931-1932 WIKI.

 

[Viking1066]

Row of Mig-21s at Barnaul Military Pilot College, Siberian Military District YRPU.

 

[MIflyer]

Nakajima A1N2 type 3 'NI-203' IJN Kaga

Is that a Flycatcher built under license?

 

[Viking1066]

Is that a Flycatcher built under license?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A1N
Role	Fighter
Manufacturer	Nakajima
Designer	H. P. Folland (Gloster Aircraft Company)
First flight	12 December 1927
Introduction	1929
Retired	1935
Primary user	IJN Air Service
Number built	151
Developed from	Gloster Gambet

The Nakajima A1N, or Navy Type 3 Carrier Fighter, was a Japanese carrier-based fighter of the late-1920s and early-1930s. It was a licensed copy of the British Gloster Gambet fighter, built by the Nakajima Aircraft Company for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Approximately 150 were built in two versions, the A1N1 and A1N2.

 

[cammerjeff]

Is that a Flycatcher built under license?

No it looks similar, but apparently it was a License copy of a Gloster Gambet fighter according to WIKI.

Nakajima A1N - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi K3M2 trainer courtesy of the net.

 

[Viking1066]

Spitfire MkIX RAF 32 Sqn over the Suez Canal and Merchant Tanker Salamis 1946 ASBIZ.

 

[Shinpachi]

IJN Battleship Yamato with full speed of 27.46 knot during trial off the coast of Sukumo on October 20, 1941.

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

IJN Battleship Yamato with full speed of 27.46 knot during trial off the coast of Sukumo on October 20, 1941.

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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

First time I've seen this picture. This is probably the first "new" picture I've seen of Yamato since I was a kid.

 

[Viking1066]

Aichi D3A1 'AI-207' taking off from IJN Akagi during the Indian Ocean Raid 1942 WIWA

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat VBF-87 and TBM Avengers VT-87 aboard CV-14 USS Ticonderoga 1944 ASBIZ

 

[Frog]

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat VBF-87 and TBM Avengers VT-87 aboard CV-14 USS Ticonderoga 1944 ASBIZ
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And the two SB2C-4s (notice rocket racks) on the right must belong to VB-87.

 

[Frog]

Odds are strong that VBF-87 dropped the last bombs of WW 2 during a raid on Choshi Airfield on august 15, 1945.

 

[Shinpachi]

Odds are strong that VBF-87 dropped the last bombs of WW 2 during a raid on Choshi Airfield on august 15, 1945.

Just confirmed. Thanks!

Source: Action report for period 1 July through 15 August 1945: USS Ticonderoga, USSBS Index Section 7

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/4008595/1/58

 

[Viking1066]

A6Ms from IJN Zuikaku prepare for a mission in Rabaul WIKI.

 

[Viking1066]

Reggiane Re 2001 Falco-II Aeronautica Co-Belligerante Lecce Italy 1944 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

252 Ku Mitsubishi A6Ms at Misawa 1944 WIWA

 

[Viking1066]

Vought F4U 4 Corsair White 226 waits for take off clearance as a B 25 lands on Iwo Jima 1945 ASBIZ