Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (1 Viewer)

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Shinpachi]

Kawanishi N1K1-J assembly line circa 1942.

Source: Unknown

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots shinpachi!

 

[special ed]

Love these assembly shots. The Shiden is a favorite.

 

[johnbr]

Gotha P-60A,

View attachment 510465 and P-60C.
LiTOT: Nazi Jet-Bats Which Never Took Wing
LiTOT: Planes of the German Air Force (table)

 

[johnbr]

Gotha P-60A was planned as a radical new German fighter plane but apparently never got past wind tunnel stages. Power plants were to be two BMW 003 jet units, one mounted over craft's center section and one underneath. Crew would lie prone in wing's center portion. Four Mk 108 30-mm cannon were to comprise armament. Though shown in sketch, vertical directional control elements, mounted near wing tips, were to be discarded. With a gross weight of 16,424 lbs, estimated top speed was 593 mph.

AAF TRANSLATION NO.525 COMPARISONS OF THE 8-229 AND THE GO P-60 ALL-WING AIRPLANES

 

[Shinpachi]

Kawanishi N1K1-J assembly line circa 1942.

Source: Unknown

 

[special ed]

Very nice

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

 

[Glider]

It always surprises me in the Japanese manufacturing shots, how few women seem to have been involved in production.

 

[Shinpachi]

Women were manufacturing parts and ammunition as volunteers.

Kawanishi N1K1-J assembly line circa 1942.
Seems to be building the prototype no.1

Source: Unknown

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Kawanishi J6K1 "Jinpu" mockup circa 1944.

These pictures were taken by Reiji Toyofuku (豊福厲治) - a former engineer of Kawanishi Aircraft.
Marking style on the pics looks same as the N1K1-J's.

Source: Model Art June 2001 issue.

 

[Wurger]

 

[special ed]

I have a question for Shinpachi. In post 1587 Picture five the fixture for the former has the western letters N1K1-J. This using western letters for designation has puzzled me since reading the book "General view of Japanese military aircraft in the Pacific war" in 1956. The volume in Japanese text uses English or western letter designations and notes for example "900 hp". I have always wondered why this is in Japanese text.

 

[Shinpachi]

Interesting question, special ed.
Since the mid-19th century, Japanese intellectual people had been familiar with Roman letters to learn western culture like politics and science.
Even ordinary people thought it cool to speak English, French or German until the Pacific War broke out.
Frankly, it was too late to ban the enemy language excusing the war.

 

[Shinpachi]

Kawanishi N1K1-J assembly line in 1942-1943.

Source: Unknown

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Kawanishi N1K1-J Prototype No.1 in end 1942 to early 1943.
Final set of pics. Thanks.

Source: Unknown