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Are you asking about this plane - Pacific Wrecks - Ki-21-II Sally abandoned Lakuani Airfield ? But no one knows what happened to him.

Here is my source-https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page There is another book, I downloaded it today. Boring and uninformative. Bill_Gunston_Bill_Ganston_-_World_encyclopedia_of_aero_engines.2006

I have some other information, dear Shinpachi... but somewhere nearby...) There are so many sources, so many opinions. The Nakajima Ha-1 Kotobuki (寿, "Longevity") was an aero-engine developed by Nakajima. It was a radial piston developed under licence from the Bristol Jupiter. Design and...

Hello everybody! Dear @Shinpachi, How and where can I read about Nakajima Kotobuki 3 9-cylinder air-cooled radial engine rated at 640 hp (470 kW). And in general, if there is more literature , manuals about other Japanese engines from other companies?

This is not categorical, this is anger at the fact that someone has, IMPERMISSIBLY has, a different opinion. Why such anger towards a stranger? What kind of fly has bitten you? I wrote from memory, I did not engage in propaganda. Everything that I have learned in my 64 years, I have outlined...

I found this book in Moscow when I arrived in '94. I don't remember what the park was called, they always sold old things there, and at the same time books. I bought not only her, but a lot of magazines. This is a collection of memories of the early days of the war. The book is called "Bug on...

Dear colleague, You forget one thing, that this is a pure stormtrooper. So what is a stormtrooper? It is an aircraft belonging to assault aviation and designed for direct support of ground forces and naval forces, as well as for targeted destruction of various land and sea targets.It is to storm...

1. I will find a photo of the pilot captain 2. Yes, it is indeed a typo. The P-38 was never supplied under lend-lease. 3. I did not write that the Air Force was the best in World War II. But you know, chickens are counted in autumn...who survived, and who died. 4. Did I generalize that no one...

Someone wrote here that the Il-2 had a bad view from the cockpit.

In confirmation of what I have described. This is the Bobruisk airfield. What do we see? SB-2, Su-2, I-15 or I-153, and in the background a brand new Il-4. This is the Tu-2, and below the Tu-2C

Regarding the Pe-2 and Tu-2... ...""The first three serial Tu-2s produced by plant No. 166 arrived at the Kalinin Front in September 1942. The vehicles turned out to be part of the 3rd Air Army, commanded by Colonel-General M.M. Gromov. Together with the aircraft, a group of specialists headed...

Well, to be completely precise, the Soviets left the lands that were in the Yalta Conference agreement. They ceded these lands, which the Allies did not reach.

I don't want to offend anyone, but you have problems with the history of World War 2 ...) But isn't Germany bordered by Belgium and Switzerland. Does Yugoslavia border Italy? And it was not the Soviet aviation that was the best, but the entire Soviet army. Including aviation. This has been...