Dammm..... Brain is not working today... reminds me of a 1937 plane that originally cam with a radial and then was converted to in-line motor.... and not many of them made....
very interesting.. I am looking at the canopy and thinking that their is no way a north American could stand having a strip of metal down the middle like that..like right where you are looking straight forward.. so, I think it must be Japanese, Russian or Italian...not north American..thats all I can guess for now..
P-47 had windscreen bisected... until the later D models. But this is no P-47, easy to glean that... the motor doesn't look like it is in any USA plane either..... I am glad you guys didn't click the link to the one that fuckin guy above posted, because that is the dead give-away. Archer. Well done! Now take that picture out and let the other users have a go at thinking about it? I am very intrigued by the plane. I downloaded it to use in X-Plane and man, what a hot-rod.
It's a Japanese Ki. C'mon guys!! And look at the picture with the paper of the Ki in it's colors, clipped to a panel with the meatball, and Ki color scheme.
Here's a cool page to look at for many walk arounds of finished and unfinished Japanese aircraft. http://www.j-aircraft.com/walk/walkarou.htm
Archer's picture even has a title of the plane displayed Though I noticed that title only now, after I called that plane "Seiran".
It was a float-plane but It could be launched from catapult without it's floats.... Why would anyone want to launch a plane that cannot touch-down? Oh. Jap....
Mac: Is this your photobucket ? johnhowlingmouse Well, I guess that pseudo will do. Congrats on finding a way to post your pics here. I am getting new digs soon and one of my projects is to start making model air-planes again. I used to be very very good building them, I mean, harnesses for the pilot, painting instruments, or better, getting hi quality decal kits. I liked to use thin aluminium film to simulate bare metal planes, and they looked fantastic. My favourite parts of those projects were always cockpits and radial engines. One day, if I live, I will post a photo of a new model, maybe that Aichi M6A goodie I saw in the pic you posted, Tamaya, ooh, I love those models. I made a twosome once, Yamato and Musashi... [not planes, but still looked really cool]Had them side by side until my year old son made them, uh, go into the trash bin.
to answer your question: It was the folding plane to be launched from the special submarines for long range attacks on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada. Guess you didn't read about Jap bombs dropped on Alaska , Canada and other Pacific Northwest states... The idea was the subs come up near the coast, planes get launched and bomb the targets, planes come back to near the subs. the ditch the planes and leave. One thought was the Japs would use chemical/bio weapons. After the war the two giant submarine aircraft hangers were taken by the US, examined and then scuttled. One theory was it was too secret and too good that they did not want these to fall into Russians hands. Or the submarine building companies did not want the competition... for they were already gearing -up for a nice big fat and very highly profitable cold war..... You had to ask.....
And the Imperial Japanese WERE using chemicals and biological weapon. I read it was in prison camps, against Russian Empire [soviet] and, I think, Chinese, so it was a very good reason for the Yanks and Cauncks to be shit scared. They didn't talk about chem or Bio in the news, they informed the people by saying the Imperial Japs were lighting forest fires. Hell, it worked well to get the Ute 'Indians' into their concentration camps 60 years earlier, so it was coughed up and used again. There was a lighthouse got shelled by one of those subs. I don't think the planes were launched, they just used deck guns. But it scared the shit out of CANUSA. My mom told me that her first memories of worldly events were being shit scared, every day, because the propaganda machine was going non stop, and too, my grandfather was sent to prison for, oh, 7 years. [jehova's WItnesses said NO and went to prison, all of them... Grandad told me 20,000 young men.... whoa] Mum was born in 1936. Imagine being a little girl in paradise [Vancouver] and seeing airships tethered and hearing air raid sirens every day and seeing huge bombers right over your house [my mom and my grandparents lived about five miles from a BIG airbase just S of Vancouver. She says that fleets of Big Black Bombers she called them, flew over her house. And then Grandad was taken away by soldiers...... My mom told me she wishes those years had never happened to her she says she is still always scared. That fear was imprinted. Wow. My grandfather told me that everything was the fault of the yankees. Hmmm. I think that might be true now, but not in 1939....1945. It was definitely the nazis and Imperial Japs. But I digress.... Those subs were really something. On their own steam [hehe] one could sail from Home Islands to NYC and no using of the Panama Canal..... I believe it would be a one-way trip though. Not sure.
oh yeah, this reminds me of some memories... British Columbia 1942 - a very different place. Everybody on the coast was on high alert for jap subs, ships. The japs had bombed pearl harbour, killed 2 million Filipinos and 557 Canadians at Hong Kong. My grandma lived on the coast of BC and yeah you are right, she and grandpa did not like japs ever in their life. She called them JAPS and meant it. right up until she died, same thing with my grandpa. There was one occasion she told me that my uncle found a boat at 6 am on the coast and no one was around, just a big boat sitting on the beach like a war canoe, with no one around. So my grandma went down to the water with a rifle and was gonna get as many japs as possible. she got down to the water and luckily there were a couple of non locals who owned that boat and they weren't japs so they lived. FUCK!!!!!! no its not my photobucket..I just did a google image search for aichi planes and said "yeah, that one" in my brain. If I ever did get my own webspace for pics and stuff, do you think I would have pics of ww2 era jap planes and labatts blue cans? puhhlease. there would be so many pics of gorilla cocks it would make yer head spin. you should know me by now.
Good story Mac. Perfect compliment to my effort. Oh, I use Google+ to share photos and things. ANd ya know something? I don't have any tranny porn in that. We all have a public face. I think you, as I, understand that FH is FREE as in freedom too, so we feel comfortable unloosing here, but surely would not in other forums. Uh. If you or anyone here, should ever check out my Google+ pages, you will see some opinions and some stories and not a lot that would get me into any trouble except from family. And family does not know my pseudo. The will after I have died. And I have some web content stored under my Real Name, that I self sensor and try to make it so it can be a testement for my son and nieces. I think you are a hell of a guy and are probly quite a citizen in real life, you have some great stories. Before going to photobucket set up two or three email accounts. I did. I used HBiles@whatever.com HBiles@SomeWebBasedEmail.com HBiles@AnotherWebBasedEmail.com... oh and one for gmail too, so I could psudo in to Google+ Yes, it was a half hour or more to get them set up. I Have a couple identities, one is for my employer or that sort of thing [employer? Nah] And another is the one I can be safe from family and friends. You could do that. I didn't make that up, lots of people use bogus identities. I am well aware the cops could track my ass, so could the yankee evil surveillance... but I am not a criminal, just a tad immoral. [probably much less immoral than many imagine]
