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Nothin' personal Japs
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Me: *looks at Japanese plane*
Japanese Plane: *bursts into flames*
I wish I would have talked to gramps about them more when he was alive. The war was a touchy subject and I was just a dumb kid so I abstained from trying to talk about it entirely.
Whistling Death
US carriers denied it.
British carriers used it.
The US did use it on its carriers once the brits proved it could be done
>*Teleports behind you*
Yeah.
Was it called the Ki100 because Japan could only make 100 of them?
Germany made the best planes in ww2
Yeah, all 60 of them
*Spends seven hours just to escort them B-29s for Curtis "Japanese Empire? More like a funeral pyre" LeMay.*
Shut up, Vought thot.
Reminder that "Seahorse Project" existed.
Reminder that the Mustang actually worked very well as a carrier fighter. Iwo Jima and Okinawa negated the need, though, as those gave us airbases with the necessary range.
>heh nothing personal corsair nigger
let the superior aircraft do the job
LMAO
>Ki100
396, actually.
Actually they made gorillions of 109's of all variants, one of the most mass produced aircraft of all time in fact. But that's about it
>Yeah, all 60 of them
>over 20,000 Fw-190's were made alone
Yikes!
N1K2 master race ki100 mongoloid nigger faggot
>Can't respect the personal choices of his fellow weebs
I bet you haven't even watched 600 anime shows
A Corsair killed a P-51 in the only battle they fought between each other.
what is corsair negroid propaganda
I like my girls a little thiccer
You know you can't resist that OD green, those invasion stripes, that classic razorback cockpit...
>literally #3 on most produced aircraft of all time while being bombed nonstop
>Liquid Cooled engine
>For two services who spent at least 60% of their VF sorties on low level attack.
Yikes
If you hear planes during the night then it must be the RAF.
If you see planes during the day then it must be the US air force.
If you see and hear absolutely fucking nothing then it must be the Luftwaffe.
>109 is a good plane
>A plane that with such a high takeoff/landing accident rate that the Fw190 was built to replace it
lol
oh no, it appears you don't have any fuel to get off the ground, yikes!
>*Takes off with the power of Bushido*
>*rams you*
Heh... nice try try, kid
Here comes the big boi
So ugly, it's cute.
the corsair was literally built out of cloth
itt: rotary master race
good taste, though I really like the bubble canopy variants
>rotary
*radial herp derp
you're not wrong, but could you do us all a favor and not use those leddit tier basedboy faggot memes?
Step aside peasants
Got to see one fly last weekend. Beautiful engine sound.
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Tiffys give me a big stiffy.
But when the Tiffy attacks U.S. & Canadian Armored Columns ain't so spiffy.
Nonetheless, I won't get all pissy, because after all: I love them Tiffys!
>*Runs out of fuel*
>Reminder that the Mustang actually worked very well as a carrier fighter.
Except it was shit for making carrier landings, took up way too much deck space even with folding wings, and required carriers to carry liquid coolant instead of just using more rugged air-cooled radial engines.
>build a plane so tough and so un-aerodynamic that it literally does not have a maximum dive speed
>its terminal fucking velocity is lower than the plane's theoretical Vne
Wildcat is an underrated old girl.
Fuck nips. Hell yeah. Not enough nukes in the world to kill dweebs.
Only the control surfaces, rudder, elevators, and ailerons. That was still standard at the time.
The F4U-5 used at least metal-skinned ailerons, possibly other surfaces as well.
t. boomer
>land based island hopper
Ugly
The thunder over Michigan airshow in August is going to have 7 corsairs flying in the show. It's the most ever organised since like the 60's
True story
>Be Me
>Staff an anime convention near DC
>Assigned to take Japanese guest to Udvar-Hazy museum annex
>They want to see Enola Gay
>walks down to the massive B-29
>under one of its wings is a Japanese night fighter
>looks up at B-29
>down at fighter
>up at B-29
>down at fighter
>back up to B-29
>says to himself out loud "no wonder we lost"
MFW On the way in, there were protesters because it was the anniversary of Hiroshima, the Japanese guests had no idea why they were out there.
Typical garbage virtue signaing westerners. But cool story bro
Wonder how much Bushido required to move this one
It was a common request for Japanese guests, especially Directors, to want to visit Udvar-Hazy
Also took Japanese guests on range trips, with mixed results.
God I love this plane. The 1a clubs the shit out of 109E/Fs and 190As in War Thunder Sim but I'm the only one who flies it it seems.
>under one of its wings is a Japanese night fighter
Been a long as time since I've been to Udvar Hazy, but is that the Ki-45 or or one of the interceptors they built (J2M)? IIRC the ki-45 is the only surviving airframe and all that's left is the fuselage.
Was one of these two...
The N1k is a very good fighter
That was in Kotobuki, ne?
im still amazed at the fact they were able to keep her when so many others were scrapped.
N1K then. The other is the Seiran, a floatplane bomber meant to be launched from the I-400 class subs. N1K was a great plane in all honesty, like the Ki-84 and Ki-100. Just too late and almost no experienced pilots left to fly them, and no infrastructure worth speaking of to maintain them.
that's a serian float plane and a shinden. the night fighter is the gekko. you can see the tail of it in this image.
Back when I played War Thunder, I had both the 1a which was a goofy yet fun plane and the premium version, which I loathed. Few times I flew it before putting it away. Got to the standard version and I fell in love with that one. Plenty of fun shooting down Russki fags in their Yaks & La-Las with that Typhoon.
Also the 40mm Tempest was stupidly fun too.
Let's meet up you lil bitch
>last weekend
Fuck. Oh well, I got to see a B-17 flying around Long Beach today
The P-47 beats the spitfire at high altitude :3
>krauts on Jow Forums
You guys deserve to be inferno'd again.
>HOW DARE YOU USE FACTS
You talking about the B-29 or the Japanese planes? Anything that ended up at Pax River got destroyed IIRC.
The real tragedy is that not a single YB-49 survived
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Corsairs my favorite but the Jug is a cool choice.
Bin that V1
*bomber
>BOOM
>ZOOM
Yes, but also the last few feet of the wing tip was fabric covered.
Thanks man, that must be it. Forgot this thing existed.
>nice jets you got there jerry, would be embarrassing if a prop could go faster than them
Both the N1K1 (Shiden; Nazarin Squadron) and the N1K2 (Shiden Kai; the watermelon-colored fighters that got fucked up by a fucking biplane).
If only one had survived, though. It would put an end to the fucking wehrbs shrilling about how the Nazis invented flying wings and how the B-2 is based on Nazi tech, completely either in ignorance of or handwaving away Jack Northrop's throbbing loveboner for flying wings.
Step aside, best Japanese WWII fighter coming through.
>Frank
Best mass-produced fighter that wasn't a one-off or permanently stuck in development hell.
It's such a joy to fly in simulators. I wish I could have one in real life.
That always pisses me off, Northrop was flying powered flying wing designs while the Horten brothers were still fucking around with gliders.
Heh
Nothin' perso- SCHEISSE DAS TRIEBWERK ÜBERHITZT!! HANS ICH KOMM RUNTER!!
>Make a carrier plane that can't land on carriers
What did they mean by this?
True
Is that the main aircraft in Kotobuki sempai?
No, the main aircraft are Ki-43-I Hei.
Do It Again, Bomber Harris.
That's a Hellcat, not a Wildcat. Wildcat F4F. Hellcat is a F6F.
Easiest way to tell is look at the landing gear. Main gear fold into the fuselage on a Wildcat. Hellcat folds into the wing.
>does a negative G
>engine stalls
(it also says it in the text, that user is a dumby head)
Oh damn, I didn't see it with all the cloud in the area yesterday, but I know the 17 you're talking about. It flies out regularly enough by San Pedro over the waters.
F4U-1s were landing on carriers in 1942, Vejtasa was even involved in the plane's carquals. It failed carquals because it didn't hold up the Navy standards for carrier landings.
British landing patterns and the installation of the stall strip on the right wing could have had the plane on carriers even before the F6F was operational, but the Navy dragged their feet and preferred the Hellcat for the majority of the war.
>Germans spend vast resources making an over engineered boondoggle to allow the 109 to nose over and power dive
>British get some condoms and poke a hole in them, does the same thing
You shut your whore mouth. The brits are weirdly defensive about the spitfire, which was never the war winning weapon they believe it was, but at the same time ugly it ain't.
Slavshit planes, now those were disgustingly ugly.
That paintjob is puke worthy and you know it.
>WW2 Aircraft thread
The worst threads on Jow Forums seeing as everyone gets their information from Warthunder.
TFW No Hellcats in Kotobuki
>ugly it ain't
It took them so long to make the tail not look ridiculous though. And by that point the prop had too many blades.
To actually make a flawless Spitfire in looks, you'd have to mash a bunch of marks together. Because in typical British fashion, they can't design anything good without still fucking it up a little.