Warbird Information Exchange

I've never even heard of this replica, or the hangar before! Anyone?
http://www.mcasiwakuni.marines.mil/News/NewsStories/NewsArticleDisplay/tabid/6911/Article/98690/iwakuni-zero-hangar-icon-of-past-glories.aspx

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Christopher Soltis
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Chicks Dig Warbirds.......right?

Yes Chris. It's been around for at least 25-30 years. Don't exactly remember when, but I don't think I was married when I first saw a photo of it in front of the hardened hanger. It was natural metal then.
Jerry

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Air Classics had a story on it way back when. I'm going to say at least 30 years ago. Don't recall if it was a full fledged write up or just a blurb in the preservation section but, as noted by Jerry, I remember a picture of it in front of the concrete bunker in a natural metal finish.

Cool hangar; there are still several fortified hangars/bunkers (with grass growing over the top of them) similar to that at Kisarazu Air Base in the Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo Bay.

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Whateve happened to the Zero that the Marine Corps Aviation Museum had in the 1980's? It had a B-25 engine and prop on it and was flown in when purchased. I think it had F-86 fuel tanks on it.

I believe the USMC Museum's Zero is now at Pensacola.
5359 •A6M5-52
Robert Diemert, Carman MAN.68/82
(Nakajima built)
(recov. .68 ex Ballale Island, Bougainville, Solomon Islands:
arr. dism. Pt Moresby PNG 29.8.68 with 2 other Zeros and a Val: all 4 collected 14.1.69
by RCAF C-130 10324, airfreighted to Canada:stored on owner’s farm at Carman MAN)
USMC Museum, MCAS Quantico VA 82/91 (displ. as "136")
Liberal Air Museum, Liberal, KS: loan 89/91
NMNA, NAS Pensacola, FL 92/13
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a6m2/5450.html

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"Always remember that, when you enter the ocean or the forest, you are no longer at the top of the food chain."

Could this be the same aircraft?

Or, anyone knows where?


Saludos,



Tulio

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I am one of them 'futbol' people.

Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

That would be the Ki-43 at Clark Field in the Philippines around the 1950's

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Zero Surprise!!...

...which was taken down and scrapped shortly thereafter.

The Zero mockup on display at Iwakuni, IIRC, was one of several built for the 1984 movie Zerosen Moyu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YLM78rGSQo

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

The Zero looks like a high quality replica.

Thank you.

Saludos,


Tulio

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Why take the best part of life out of your life, when you can have life with the best part of your life in your life?

I am one of them 'futbol' people.

Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????