Best Pacific Fighter?

CurzonDax · 02-19-2006, 03:19 PM

I agree on this. On LJ I got into a discussion about Japanese aircraft in modern avaition art (hey its Live Journal, go figure) and we could not find any source material on line.

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paranalvo · 02-19-2006, 03:32 PM

even books are rare and expensive, there is a site of ebooks with 241 books, and gess, only 6 are about jap planes!!!!
the shiden that I am going to present in the show is from the 343 kokutai but I can't find any references were it was posted, I have to gess between formosa, Luzon and japan.

cheddar cheese · 02-19-2006, 03:37 PM

Ive come across a couple of books about the Italians which sound really good....barring the £150+ price.

paranalvo · 02-19-2006, 04:08 PM

British pounds or lira's? Try www.betah.co.il, some of the books are in chezc or poul, but the images are great and the color profiles helps with the black and white fotos

cheddar cheese · 02-19-2006, 04:19 PM

Awesome! Found some things but when I tried to download It would let me, must have some settings on my computer preventing me.

paranalvo · 02-19-2006, 04:26 PM

if you register on the forum it will let you download 15 books/24h

cheddar cheese · 02-19-2006, 04:30 PM

Still not working

paranalvo · 02-19-2006, 04:35 PM

it must be your security defenitions

CurzonDax · 02-19-2006, 07:29 PM

I have also seen some wonderful publications, in Cyrillic!

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paranalvo · 02-20-2006, 05:08 AM

Isn't it wonderful! the russians with their beautiful winters have lots of time for reading and modeling so they have a industry of scale planes and armours in expansion. Here in western europe we have the same old airplanes (spits and messers) it's an horror

MP-Willow · 02-22-2006, 09:13 PM

If you readsome stuff from USN pilots in the Pacific you will find some info on the IJN aircraft. If you can read Japanese more power to you, and info. But even that is sketchy at times.

Did you get what you needed? The N1kK2 was a very good aircraft that if given the pilot was the equill of any USAF/ USN or RAF aircraft

dgetlin1@verizon.net · 03-28-2006, 10:01 PM

of course, at the beginning of the pacific war, the zero was, by far, the best..........but........during the progression, our plane builders learned, jap planes stayed about the same and there was no match between ours and theirs................

carpenoctem1689 · 03-28-2006, 10:08 PM

I wouldnt say it was the best. I mean, once the americans figured out how to fight the zero, it stood no match, even in P-40s with no gunsights (claire chenaults flying tigers). The japanese had a manouverable plane and good pilots trained in china. Thats where the advantages, besides range end. It didnt have a high ceiling, couldnt turn above 250mph worth a damn, had 0! armor, and its two 7.62mm machineguns are pitifully weak (the damn hurricane had eight, and they tried twelve on the... the one with the napiere sabre engine that became an awesome fighter bomber). It had two 20mm cannon, but these didnt have alot of ammunition, 60 rounds a piece. Four guns, no armor, need for low speed, low cieling, and lack of decent bomb load make the zero vulnerable, in a turning fight it was unbeatable, otheriwse the pilots of the rising sun would be plummetting to earth like a setting one.

lesofprimus · 04-12-2006, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dgetlin

jap planes stayed about the same and there was no match between ours and theirs................

Not very well versed in Japanese fighter aircraft are we??? The latter fighter aircraft produced were on the equal, if not superior to, Allied aircraft...

Soundbreaker Welch? · 04-16-2006, 08:12 PM

I don't think the P-38 and Corsair were beat by the japanese aircraft. Also Grumman had the Bearcat which wasn't bad either.