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They will do so even for static display. That is engineer's prideWill they attempt to restore it to flight worthiness?
Is that a Flycatcher built under license?Nakajima A1N2 type 3 'NI-203' IJN Kaga
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIs that a Flycatcher built under license?
A1N | |
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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 |
No it looks similar, but apparently it was a License copy of a Gloster Gambet fighter according to WIKI.Is that a Flycatcher built under license?
First time I've seen this picture. This is probably the first "new" picture I've seen of Yamato since I was a kid.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)
And the two SB2C-4s (notice rocket racks) on the right must belong to VB-87.Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat VBF-87 and TBM Avengers VT-87 aboard CV-14 USS Ticonderoga 1944 ASBIZ
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Just confirmed. Thanks!Odds are strong that VBF-87 dropped the last bombs of WW 2 during a raid on Choshi Airfield on august 15, 1945.