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About LinkBacksi'm bot sure, i would have said it was a T-6 converted to look like a Zero proberly for a film, but for the long landing gear which the T-6 didn't have, so it's a close one to call......................
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i'm bot sure, i would have said it was a T-6 converted to look like a Zero proberly for a film, but for the long landing gear which the T-6 didn't have, so it's a close one to call......................
"Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy."
I think it doesn't quite look like an A6M Zero cos of the camera angle and the fact that the cockpit is openyou don't often see photos of them with their wheels down either
Would someone who keeps mentionning this please tell me what this international (or British) assistance was? Unless its just the landing approach, which I'm sure that after several casualties on straight in approaches like the Brits had before they changed to lining up at the last moment, even the yanks would have figured it out quite quicklythe US spawned the Corsair (with international assistance)
As to the Corsair being designed in response to 'trouble' with the Japanese planes, you're quite wrong
As you can see, the US Navy had the Corsair design specs laid out before WWII broke out (excluding the Japanese invasion of China though) and it's first flight was before the US engaged in air combat with the Japanese. Also, the Zero's capabilities were unknown to the US until they captured one in the Aleutians, and the general belief in the US leading up to the war was that the Japanese couldn't make a decent combat aircraft (which they were extremely wrong aboutIn 1938 the US Navy had decided that the time was long overdue to bring carrier-based aviation up to the same performance level as land-based aircraft. On 30 June 1938 the US Navy ordered teh Grumman XF5F-1 and the Vought XF4U-1, while a third aircraft, the Bell XFL-1, was ordered laster on 8 November. The XF5F-2 was the first twin-engine, single-seat aircraft to be built for the Navy, while the Bell XFL-1 was a carrier-based version of the P-39 Airacobra...After just over 200 flights the XF5F-1 project was abandonned in favour of the XF7F-1, which later became the Tigercat. Equally, the Bell machine, first flown on 13 May 1940, was not proceeded with either... on 29 May 1940 the yellow-and-silver painted XF4U-1 was ready for its first flight). While Chennault was in China from 37 or so, any information he may have passed on to the US wasn't distributed to the pilots AFAIK.
I know that the first orders were placed for Corsairs in 1941...but didn't fly til 1942...you're telling me it took the yanks 4 years to design this aircraft?? Christ even the FRENCH could've designed and perfected it in that time!
As for presenting you with the info on how the Brits and the Russians (shock) helped the Americans design the plane...do the research yourself you lazy bugger!
check for youself buddy - i'm a sure a 'die hard' fan of the corsair like yourself would love the chance to find out how great our British Engineers were
Nope, it's a REAL A6M2 Zero
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It certainly is! oliver
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i agree but i can see where the lanc got his ideas of it being a converted texan because when the cockpit is slid back it becomes framed like a texans but i can definetly say it IS a zero
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Oliver?Originally Posted by kiwimac
But my name is Susan
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I found some info about Tora! Tora! Tora! which they use some of T-6 Texan in the movie, but i aint sure lol
Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations than those moments when he must push aside all the familiar defenses of ego and vanity, and accept reality by staring, with the fear that is normal to a man in combat, into the face of Death.
— Major Robert S. Johnson, USAAF
na, you can see in the pic that it obviously has long landing gear, and the T-6 had very short landing gear..............
"Reminds me of the time I sank the Tirpitz" comments a Spitfire pilot, "One pass of course, old boy."
Tora Tora Tora used modified T-6s. I have the DVD and they say it in an interview. Also, after they point it out, and that the wings are swept wrong, its actually quite obvious (one had the leading edge swept and the trailing relatively straight, the other was the opposite).
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nopeoh well ill change it tomorrow
You want to see a T-6--Zero photo go to Axl's plane gallery and look up the Zero. Several pics are Tora Tora Harvards.
Your pic needs to be hosted online somewhere C.C. - like the picture gallery
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