The Japanese took a serious pounding towards the end and most material was utterly destroyed. The remaining was used as last effort weapons. Everything that could fly, was used untill it fell out of the sky.
1. As you say: the pacific might still turn up a few perls.
2. So the Americans did get a ki46-2. Is anything known about its end?
as you said japan took a real pounding but if you look at the post war pics taken during the early days of occupation alot of really intresting stuff survived only to be burnt:mad:.
we can only hope that the pacific leaders see reason and release these aircraft to be restored and put under cover(i know that they need to feed there people is more important)as the battle field tourism wont survive much longer as when some one hurts them selves on these decaying planes they will probably be scrapped:mad:.
there ais a very historic j1n1 in the solomans that needs saving it’s one of the two field modified night figher’s
as for the ki 46-2 as far as i know it was scrapped possibly at clark field along with the raiden and ki44,n1k1and other’s one of the taic collection a ki43 survived only to be ordered scrapped in the 60’s.
this beauty was tested why didnt they save it:mad:
yep i meant the ki46-2 variant the most produced and used version and yet no known surviver.
i forgot about the frances at the nasm(paul garber collection)
and i didnt know about the willow in Indonesia:o.
then i’ll add
ki 83
ki 93
ki102 randy.
all experimental
a6m2k
n1k1 the mid wing george
the odd thing with japanese survivors is the number of oddball survivor (the j7w1 and j5n tenra parts for instance) but the important stuff(except for most models of zero) are mainly non existent (bettys,nell’s babs etc).
it would be great to see the south pacific turn up a few more rarities but even if they exist i doubt we’ll see them in museums:mad:
ps this is the dinah i’d love to see
paul
does anyone know of the do335 replica being built in germany ?
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