Wrecks From Asia?

FWIW, a Japanese news article dated 2015/07/13.

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2015/07/13/517/

The (literally translated) “Zero-Sen Home-Coming Project” continues.

The WWII Zero fighter arrived in Japan on 2014/11/05.
It was re-assembled at JMSDF Kanoya AB.
On 2015/07/07, its engine start test began.

The project official homepage:

https://www.zero-sen.jp/

FWIW, a Japanese news article dated 2014/12/06.

http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/kagoshima/article/131590

A WWII Zero fighter recovered in PNG in 1970s, and restored to flyable condition in USA, is scheduled to come home = arrive at Kagoshima Airport, Japan, on 2014/12/07.
Disassembled and transported by trailer(s), it will be re-assembled.

If allowed by the appropriate aviation department(s), it will begin flying in Japan in 2015 spring.

[QUOTE=airmanual;2097264]Good day,

One wreck that i do not understand why it has never been recovered is the Ki-48 Lily still sitting in the Kuriles Islands. It’s indeed a wreck and quite incomplete but none of them are preserved in Japan or any western museum.

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Laurent

A better Kurile wreck was recovered and has been rebuilt to a degree and is now on display at the Victory Museum, Moscow. See Classic Wings #89 for a photos and details.

There’s one on display in the museum at Datang Shan (China), and one in storage for the museum at Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

Good day,

I wouldn’t be as optimistic as the one in China is almost a complete “look alike” replica and the one recovered from Babo in the late 70’s and reportedly stored at Yogyakarta has disappeared many many years ago.

Laurent

Good day,

One wreck that i do not understand why it has never been recovered is the Ki-48 Lily still sitting in the Kuriles Islands. It’s indeed a wreck and quite incomplete but none of them are preserved in Japan or any western museum.

There’s one on display in the museum at Datang Shan (China), and one in storage for the museum at Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

www.irrawaddy.org/business/%EF%BB%BFirrawaddy-business-roundup-december-14-2013.html

UK Freight Firm Backs New Search for ‘Buried’ Spitfires

2013/12/14

A British freight-handling company with offices in Rangoon is giving financial backing for a resumption of the search for World War II Spitfire planes believed to be buried in Burma.

The Claridon Group, a worldwide freight logistics business, said it will fund the search by Briton David Cundall, which was called off earlier this year when a previous sponsor withdrew support.

Good day,

One wreck that i do not understand why it has never been recovered is the Ki-48 Lily still sitting in the Kuriles Islands. It’s indeed a wreck and quite incomplete but none of them are preserved in Japan or any western museum.

Laurent

Oh man, the corrosion is pretty savage! I hope something is done with it before it fizzes away…
Thanks for posting Don. 🙂

The ‘corrosion’ is damage caused by lake organisms, so is not getting ‘worse’ now it is out of the water.

Well, only six days until Christmas so perhaps some news, soon, from the pre-Christmas dig?

Otherwise, it’s nearly 2014. The year when the fat lady sings.

Pretty unlikely

Moggy

I heard that there lots of Spitfires buried in crates in Burma too!

No problemo, dude.

FYI, Towadako Lake is in southern Aomori Prefecture.

http://www.jiji.com/jc/v4?id=amkisso&p=amkisso-map

In this map, the red circle (north) is Aomori City.
The red cross (south) is the lake.
The red star (east) is Misawa aerospace museum, where the wreck is preserved.

The lake is fresh water.
Oirase Keiryuu is a river that leads east all the way from the lake to Pacific Ocean.
The river has several waterfalls, the closest of which is about 1.6 klick from the lake, which prevent fishes and other submarine animals from migrating from downstream to the lake.

I did a bit of homework about the lake and the river, because I plan to go there in 2014 Q2, but my schedule currently doesn’t include the museum.

Oh man, the corrosion is pretty savage! I hope something is done with it before it fizzes away…
Thanks for posting Don. 🙂

Recent photos of the WWII Tachikawa Ki-54 Type 1 two-engine trainer recovered from Towadako Lake, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, in 2012 September.

http://www.jiji.com/jc/v4?id=amkisso&p=amkisso-IMG_1385

http://www.jiji.com/jc/v4?id=amkisso&p=amkisso-IMG_1538

http://www.jiji.com/jc/v4?id=amkisso0001

a question
the bulldozed buffalo is still here?
and the other bulldozed wreck
isn’t possible recover these as component
p.s. the link do not open

If anyone can pinpoint the site I will go and have a look next weekend if thats any help …

a question
the bulldozed buffalo is still here?
and the other bulldozed wreck
isn’t possible recover these as component
p.s. the link do not open

http://www.kahoku.co.jp/news/2012/11/20121103t25006.htm

http://www.toonippo.co.jp/news_too/nto2012/20121101135000.asp?fsn=eb33f76037153e93cde084f7e7644d6f

1 November 2012:
Tachikawa Ki-54. Trainer.
IJAAF.

Wreck recovered from Towada Lake, between Akita and Aomori Prefectures, displayed publically at Aomori Prefectural Misawa Aviation & Space Museum, Misawa City, Aomori Prefecture.

http://www.kokukagaku.jp/04_topics/event_towadako.html

Official HP.

AvroAvian wrote:

The morons have trashed the fuselage!
It was intact in the underwater video posted a while ago…

What a stupid and immature comment.

A difficult underwater recovery is achived (at the second attempt if you read the thread) with much better success than many (FW Condor, for example) – and you dismiss the team as “morons”.

I suggest you read the many reports available about underwater recoveries, and the difficulties of recovering old, weakened airframes, under high water pressure, when the wreck has become attached to the lake bed, on a budget. Then think twice before making such idiotic posts.

The Ki-54 is fixable. The Brooklands Welliington collapsed in the same way – look at it now.

The recent high prices of scrap aluminium have had a very bad effect on aircraft wreckage in New Guinea.

The morons have trashed the fuselage!:mad:
It was intact in the underwater video posted a while ago…