What is that Japanese underwater bird?

Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:36 am

What is that Japanese underwater bird?

Sorry...no info on the page itself and cannot link the images......

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27317181@N06/11377327183/in/photostream/

A Jake????...just link to the first image and jump to the 3rd and 4th from the link.

Thank you for your curiosity....as always.....

Michel

Sat Jan 17, 2015 1:57 am

Yep..Aichi E13A "Jake" floatplane. Looks reasonably intact..I'd love to see it salvaged. It could either be preserved "as recovered" or form the basis of a nice static restoration.

SN

Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:44 am

Year-old video of same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNkZLap5Nko

Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:03 pm

Steve Nelson wrote:Yep..Aichi E13A "Jake" floatplane. Looks reasonably intact..I'd love to see it salvaged. It could either be preserved "as recovered" or form the basis of a nice static restoration.

SN

I would be willing to bet that aluminum skin is wafer thin after all those years under water and you could poke holes in it with your finger.

Sat Jan 17, 2015 6:13 pm

Why would that matter? I can't think of a major restoration recently that hasn't been totally reskinned.

Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:08 pm

The world already has 2 unrestored preserved as is......

Even a total rebuilt would be a fair add-on to the community!

Thank you again for hosting Preserved Axis Aircraft!!!!!...Tks Dave.....

Tks for all the info guys!

Michel

Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:16 pm

Stephan Wilkinson wrote:Why would that matter? I can't think of a major restoration recently that hasn't been totally reskinned.

I doubt it would survive being removed from the water.

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