KI-43 on a pole?

[Shay]

I notice this on the aircraft resource center's front page and thought that some here might be able to shed some light on the subject. Thanks
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal4/3901-4000/gal3951_K-43_Harrison/gal3951.htm

Shay

[David_Aiken]

Hi Shay,
The ATIC (air technical intelligence center) had a huge gathering point of captured Japanese aircraft at Clark Field in 1945. Many examples were tested there and a few were forwarded to the US, Britain for further laboratory study, etc.

The Ki-43II, which came to be mounted on a pole, was the last of that gathering. In the 1950s, a base CO who had a remarkably bad flavor for WWII, had the plane scrapped.
HTH,
David Aiken

[Shay]

Thanks David. What a shame really.

Shay