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Poll Question : Which of these countries in WW II would you like see more of?
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Posted: December/19/2005 at 7:10pm  Quote
 
IL-2, MiG-3, Pe-2, LaGG-7.......................all superb subjects that we hardly ever see.

Phil

ps:- who voted Spanish ?

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Posted: December/19/2005 at 7:27pm  Quote
 

I did!  And for some reason I can't edit the post! 

GM-2 Betty, I-16 and I-15,  But I guess most Spanish aircraft were license-built or purchased from foreign countries. :-(



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Posted: December/19/2005 at 8:31pm  Quote
 
Mitsubishi Model 22 was the primary Japanese bomber of WWII. Its seems I'm partial to split tail warbirds. Lots of eye candy, blisters...
Wing Span: 82 ft. 0¼ in. (25m)
Length: 53 ft. 11¾ in. (16.45m)
Height: 12 ft. 1¼ in. (3.69m)
Wing Area: 907.32 sq. ft. (84.30m²)


Can we say...it looks like a B-25? ;^)

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Posted: December/19/2005 at 9:29pm  Quote
 

The Australian's had only two indigenous aircraft during the 1940's, the CAC Boomerang being the most original and their only fighter designed from scratch.  The Wirraway trainer is based upon the North American AT-6/SNJ. 

They did build Lincolns (four engine bomber) under license and have all the tooling for P-51 Mustangs which were built in above ground/underground factories.  As of just a few years ago all the tooling for the Mustangs was still there.  The production staff during that time numbered close to 40,000. people.  All was closed down after the war.

The remainder of aircraft during the war years were lend lease from the USA and Britain/Canada.


 
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Posted: December/24/2005 at 6:53pm  Quote
 
I voted Russian, but Japanese would have been a close second for me.  Like several others I'd really like to see an IL2, a favorite of mine for many years.  Other planes of interest are the Yak-9, Zero, and a few of the Japanese single engine bombers.  I'm more interested in the 60"-75" span (.60 size) kits because of storage space and, to some degree, cost.

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Posted: December/24/2005 at 7:14pm  Quote
 
An 80" IL2 won't be much heavier than a 75" w/s. With it being a virtual pattern
plane...its probably not going to require much more than a 1.5 to 1.8 to power.
It would be nice to see the IL2 drawn at 1/6th.

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Posted: December/25/2005 at 3:32pm  Quote
 

I'll second the Raiden idea - 108 inch quater-scale would be great, but even 1/5th would work for me.

Also second the idea of a twin - the Dinah has enough variants to keep you interested.

 



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Posted: December/25/2005 at 4:55pm  Quote
 
Mitsubishi "Nell" documentation:
Mitsubishi G3M 'Nell' torpedo-bomber - reproduced with thanks from David Mondey 'Axis Aircraft of World War II' Chancellor Press

The Mitsubishi Jukogyo Company began producing the Mitsubishi G3M2 Bomber for the Japanese
Air Force in 1934.  Beginning in 1938, about 24 early G3M2s were released to Mitsubishi for
conversion into civil transports under the designation Mitsubishi Twin-Engined Transports. 
Before WW-II Japan Air Lines (Nippon Koku K.K.) used most of these converted planes.
Some were flown on international goodwill flights:
J-BEOA flew from Tokyo to Teheran
J-BEOC flew from Tokyo to Rome
J-BACI named Nippon, flew round-the-world
The Nippon round-the-world flight was sponsored by the Mainichi newspaper in Osaka, Japan.
At the ceremony where the plane was named, the newspaper president, Nobutaro Okumura indroduced
the crew and its goodwill ambassador to His-Imperial-Highness Marshal, Prince Morimasa Nashimoto.
Shortly, thereafter the Nippon would fly round-the-world.  It was captained by pilot, Sumitoshi
Nakao (the Lindbergh of Japan) with his crew:
                             Shigeo Yoshida        Co-Pilot
                             Hajime Shimokawa      Navigator
                             Hiroshi Saeki         Flight Engineer
                             Chosaku Yaokawa       Radio Operator
                             Nobusada Sato         Radio Operator
Takeo Ohara, the only passenger was the official Japanese envoy and goodwill ambassador for
this round-the-world flight.  Philatelic mail carried on this flight is listed by the AAMS as
TO #1330. 

The The "Nell" performed an Around The World flight:




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