Viking1066
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Starter truck helps a Nakajima Ki-4 gets its engines started as it prepares to leave Tokorozawa DAIK
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Amazing picNakajima Ki-49 Donryus of the Hamamatsu school in flight OPES
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What is the object under the port wing, inboard of the landing gear? I would think it would interfere with gear retraction?A Ki-43-I in Rabaul in August 1943.
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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 9・太平洋戦争 3)(Feb.1980)
That looks like a drop tank for extended range.What is the object under the port wing, inboard of the landing gear? I would think it would interfere with gear retraction?
Lol. I seriously thought it was in an odd location. Perspective is powerful.
Many of the A6Ms look like -21 models. But this picture really caught my attention. Again, forced perspective.Four years in Rabaul.
IJN bombers stayed in Nishi(west) airfield while fighters in Higashi(east) airfield.
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Consolation group (left-down) from Japan homeland. They wear military uniforms as their ship was sunk and costumes were lost on the way to Rabaul.
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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 9・太平洋戦争 3)(Feb.1980)
I meant the legs on the other side of the zero.This zero just begins to run for intercept.
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Source: Mechanic of World Aircraft Vol.5