Eye candy for a sunday

[bazzer]

 

[bazzer]

 

[bazzer]

 

[bazzer]

 

[ausreenactor]

B-36?

Massive!

 

[DJS48]

Mr. Bazzer,
thanks again.......you out did yourself....
Don

 

[B-Man2]

Baz
Out friggin Standing photos !!
Great shots of all those flight jackets ... Wow!!
And to think that Jorge is now the new owner of all those jackets pictured in those photos Damn !!

 

[B-Man2]

Baz
Is this a captured Japanese aircraft ?
It looks like one to me. I don’t recognize it. ( not the Corsair)

 

[Chandler]

Oscar?

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Baz
Is this a captured Japanese aircraft ?
It looks like one to me. I don’t recognize it. ( not the Corsair) View attachment 54697

It is a Mitsubishi A6M, codenamed Zero. A Japanese fighter captured and refurbished for testing during WW2.

 

[B-Man2]

It is a Mitsubishi A6M, codenamed Zero. A Japanese fighter captured and refurbished for testing during WW2.

Strangely enough I would normally recognize it as a Zero, but once the markings came off Poof ! I lost it .
Thanks Lorenzo !

 

[Lorenzo_l]

Strangely enough I would normally recognize it as a Zero, but once the markings came off Poof ! I lost it .
Thanks Lorenzo !

Pleasure, Burt. I agree the foreign markings may throw one off.

 

[bazzer]

It the one they recovered from the Aleutian Islands campaign
The Japanese attack mainly to cover the main midway offensive
They used it to delovlop the dive and climb
tactics used by the wildcats against the zero
Did not level the playingfield but did save an a lot of allied pilots lives
Until the Corsair and hellcat came along
Think it may be in the Smithsonian not sure sadly never been
Another one of the bucket list
Baz

 

[Smithy]

Terrific snaps Baz, thanks for posting them mate!

 

[ausreenactor]

It the one they recovered from the Aleutian Islands campaign
The Japanese attack mainly to cover the main midway offensive
They used it to delovlop the dive and climb
tactics used by the wildcats against the zero
Did not level the playingfield but did save an a lot of allied pilots lives
Until the Corsair and hellcat came along
Think it may be in the Smithsonian not sure sadly never been
Another one of the bucket list
Baz

Hobby Master do a USN marked Zero... pretty expensive but unique indeed.

 

[Monsoon]

I love these old photos of aircrew wearing low quarter dress shoes while flying.

And if anyone was curious, the helicopter is an HH-43. My dad was a flight engineer on those.

 

[ausreenactor]

Hobby Master do a USN marked Zero... pretty expensive but unique indeed.

 

[ausreenactor]

This can't be a RNZAF B-29?

American as.....Bro.

 

[Griffon_301]

It the one they recovered from the Aleutian Islands campaign
The Japanese attack mainly to cover the main midway offensive
They used it to delovlop the dive and climb
tactics used by the wildcats against the zero
Did not level the playingfield but did save an a lot of allied pilots lives
Until the Corsair and hellcat came along
Think it may be in the Smithsonian not sure sadly never been
Another one of the bucket list
Baz

The second picture I think shows the Akutan Zero...
The first picture looks like a 52 model Zero to me which would point to a later capture date...
Just look at the exhaust stubs...
ATAIU captured and refurbished quite a few Japanese birds and made them flyable again...

 

[bazzer]

Yes I would agree also the markings are later as well
I bow to your superior knowledge
I only know about the first one from
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258566/
I am mainly interested in post war aviation
Baz