Article on the Oka, the Japanese wartime rocket-powered Kamikaze Baka bomb, on display at the FAA museum at Yeovilton – looking to find out what original inscriptions meant:
http://swns.com/news/solve-mystery-messages-wwii-kamikaze-plane-baffling-codebreakers-42358/
By: Broadsword - 3rd January 2014 at 18:24
I think it might be the risk assessment….
By: Arabella-Cox - 3rd January 2014 at 17:57
The one with the X and vertical lines looks like a ‘cg position’ to me.
There are RAE reports on the Oka in existance (I have a poor copy of FA Tech Note 272/1 – Structural features) which may help.
By: snafu - 3rd January 2014 at 16:20
Me? There were glider versions you know.
Just wondered…
By: slicer - 3rd January 2014 at 15:55
Use once only?
🙂
By: snafu - 3rd January 2014 at 11:02
Were any of these flown after the war, by allied pilots?
By: Supermarine305 - 2nd January 2014 at 23:15
Perhaps; ‘Careful: Sharp edges’ ? As you can see in the last paragraph the pain will be stripped back. 😀
The obviously more recent paint job has missed those two patches out whch means they are not new discoveries. You can see where they are just forward of the cockpit in the first picture. My guess operational stats/info.
There are more than two Ohka existing too. Preserved Axis Aircraft lists 13 existing.
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January 2, 2014 at 10:03 pm