Confused – perhaps you can help –
reading the Flypast Article in the August issue about Zero rebuilds. The survivors list cites a Zero cockpit at IWM DX – fine, seen that I think its in the Resto hangar and looks pretty poorly – (great diorama exhibit though a la Hendon Hurricane- which sadly has lost its home guard)
BUT, it also states that IWM has a complete example…am i going mad? Where is it – Ive never seen it?!
Can anyone help? Any pix?
I thought the UK list of Imp Jap aircraft ran Dinah, Ki100, Okha and Zero cockpit – I thought the IWM london had a COCKPIT…?
HELP!
By: Will J - 29th July 2005 at 20:49
As an interesting aside, is it true that the IWM London Zero’s engine & cowlings is the one on display amongst the engines in Cosford’s hangar one? If true, the two sections make fascinating exhibits in their respective ‘halves’, but surely a reunion at either location would make a more representative ‘chunk’ of zero….
discuss.. 🙂
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 29th July 2005 at 17:41
interesting moebius…didnt know that!!!!
By: Moebius - 29th July 2005 at 16:59
For a minute there, it seemed like you were talking about this British Zero
😉
Cheers
By: Kansan - 29th July 2005 at 14:59
Anyone know of other Jap kit in the UK other than that mentioned (aware that The Hunt Brothers have a wreck)
Not much to add – there is more than one Okha in the UK, since I’m sure there is/was one on the Royal Engineers Museum which used to be in Chattenden or Brompton Barracks
R/K
By: Yak 11 Fan - 29th July 2005 at 13:34
We have covered the one in the OFMC hanger before, it was resting there between Russia and America. It’s now at Chino being finished.
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 29th July 2005 at 13:03
Thanks Cees – I was sure i saw one Zero cockpit at IWM when i was a kid and it was the ATAIU-SEA one…. that wasnt mentioned in the article…unless they meant a cockpit not airframe?
Know IWM have the wreck at DX but ta for pix RL…
Maybe FP made a mistake….
Anyone know of other Jap kit in the UK other than that mentioned (aware that The Hunt Brothers have a wreck)
Elliot must have a Sentai or two with his new Museum….?????
By: Ant.H - 29th July 2005 at 12:59
IIRC,the ‘complete’ IWM Zero is the collection of manky looking bits in the restoration hangar,the Zero cockpit is as far as I’m aware still at Lambeth. The Duxford example is an A6M3 recovered from the Marshall Islands,along with a handful of others in a similar state.
By: HP57 - 29th July 2005 at 12:58
From the Mk I brain:
In the same issue it is reported that John Sterling had three airframes recovered from New Guinea IIRC. One of these (and it’s really a wreck, albeit substantial) had been sold to the IWM. It was planned that it would be fully restored, Perhaps JonathanF has further information.
The cockpit on show at Lambeth was the remaining section of one of the captured examples that were tested by the ATIU SEA.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Cees
By: Rlangham - 29th July 2005 at 12:57
Ahah, i stand corrected. The Zero cockpit is still at London to the best of my knowledge but there is a Zero Wreck at Duxford in Hangar 5
So it would appear flypast have got themselves confused, then again i thought the same until i looked up on museum-explorer.org.uk
By: Rlangham - 29th July 2005 at 12:49
The complete IWM Zero is a complete mystery to me, but i believe the Zero cockpit at Duxford was the one that used to be on display at London. Maybe the IWM found a Zero in a country somewhere in the Pacific and are hoping to restore it? Would be nice, the Pacific theatre seems to be under-represented in military museums here in the UK
By: DazDaMan - 29th July 2005 at 12:47
The OFMC did have a Zero at one point, but I think it was sold on. When I was at DX in ’98, it was still in their hangar then.
Perhaps someone can enlighten us as to where it has gone since?
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