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The Famous ZERO , Now i would love to try this one out in a multiplay with A2A's P-40 with a George Welch in behind the stick

Sorely missed but now we really go for it , screens with Vertigo Studio's Hellcat and Dauntless

Course , the Japanese .. at ground ZERO in Christchurch February 2011 .. this day will live in history - with the rescue teams

Attack on Lyttleton Harbour .. a shakey and sneak attack .

In the harbour .. but see no Battleship row

But it seems we have woken a sleeping City

Christchurch at ground ZERO !

Ian
Nicely done - believe the original quote "This day will live in infamy". Lived there once myself but moved to a healthier climate.

Back in the days of CFS2, I'd take one of these and shoot down Corsairs while flying circles around 'em
Now there's a game to dust off one of these days... dangerous I suppose, PC games do not age well.
Except... well, that's another discussion.

I always wondered why they didn't make their carriers just a tad wider so you didn't need to fold up the very tips of the wing.

Olderndirt wrote:

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Nicely done - believe the original quote "This day will live in infamy". Lived there once myself but moved to a healthier climate.

Matey , think i need to move to that climate , Pearl would be my climate

Charl wrote:

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I always wondered why they didn't make their carriers just a tad wider so you didn't need to fold up the very tips of the wing.

I chuckled at that , .... TORA TORA TORA ... the new variant Zero with folding wings Z

Great work Mr Ian

Guys .... TORA TORA TORA Again tonight .. with em fancy their folding wingtips

Hi Ian,
sorry, is this the Just Flight "Zero"?

Mitsubishi A6M2 Modell 21? Something with the painting and the Sign 341-S-51 is looking wrong. I check this with

"Japanese naval Aces and Fighter units in WWII" Ikuhiko Hata and Yasuho Izawa, translated by Don Cyrill Gorham, ISBN-1-85310-138-9
"Imperial Japanes Navy Aces 1937-45, Henry Sakaida, ISBN-1-85532-727-9
"Camouflage and markings of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fighters in WWII",

and other sources. After a quick look after it I have difficulties to find out, what is 341-S-51 What means "S"? No Idea. 51 may be an individual aircraft No.

341th NAG (Naval Air Group) (SHISHI... Lion-Group), build up 15.11.1943 at Matsuyama AB, first with Zeros, but not with the old A6M2 Modell 21. and was later a unit with N1K1-J Shiden and not Zero used in Taiwan and the Phillippines, destroyed completely January 1945 at Clark Field.

But Iam still working on the history of this aircraft.... I didn´t see the technical templete... and this is not typical for any japanese naval aircraft. Are more infos available?

Yes Hasegawa is the Just Flight model , now i would love to add those publications to my shelves

"Japanese naval Aces and Fighter units in WWII" Ikuhiko Hata and Yasuho Izawa, translated by Don Cyrill Gorham, ISBN-1-85310-138-9
"Imperial Japanes Navy Aces 1937-45, Henry Sakaida, ISBN-1-85532-727-9
"Camouflage and markings of the Imperial Japanese Navy Fighters in WWII",

I do have others that , well with the history and what was left the information is quiet limited in regard to authentic markings for individual groups and aircraft .

I see JF are promoting it on their site this week, is it actually a new release or just a promotion? Looks great BTW

Going to be ideal .. a Multiplay with a AF Corsair or a VS Hellcat ... Sweeeet !

Ian, I agree, that it is after so much time not easy for us to understand how every aircraft was painted. This is no longer available for us. We have only limited sources, and japanese fotos at this time are often enough in poor quality...

Ok. Ian, but let´s talk about flying this thing. I have another wonderful source for you and our other fellow virtual pilots how to fly a Zero.... what´s about its strong points and its weaknesses.

This one:

" Koga´s Zero - The Fighter that changed World War II" by Jim Rearden. ISBN 0-929521-56-0

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kogas-Zero-Fighter...0412&sr=8-1


It is the true story of the first A6M2 Modell 21 Zero in american hands. It was at the 2nd attack on Unalaska/Dutch Harbour on June 4, 1942 (5th June Tokyo Time) from the aircraft carrier Ryujo ... A 19 year old pilot, named Tadayoshi Koga found his aircraft crippled after this. A bullet of mashine gun-fire has ripped a fuel-tank of his aircraft and it was clear, that he can´t make it home. But, their was an alternative. South of the Island of Akutan was an japanese submarine. The plan was to crash-land at Akutan and to go to the southern tip of that island. But, what was seen from the air as "good ground for landing" was in fact a swamp. The aircraft flipped over and the pilot was killed instantly. His two other guys in in their Zero saw the crash, and the order was in this case to set the wreck of the aircraft with gunfire on fire. But they cant. They hope, that Koga is alive. They returned to the carrier without fire into the wreck.

On 9. of July 1942 an american PBY-Crew on Patrol saw the wreck. The aircraft was recovered and brought to San Diego. It was after hard work nearly like a new aircraft "around 98 % percent of the real thing". This aircraft has flown against a lot of american aircraft and the the americans found out the way "how to escape a Zero on my tail and how to fight it..."

(But, I didn´t want to talk about ... read it!)

In Oktober 1942 the mystery of the Zero was no longer a mystery. From now on every american Pilot of the pacific theater of operations know the strong points and the weaknesses of the Zero...

Good in this book are the protocalls of flight against various american types of aircraft and the informations, tips and hints of former american pilots, flying this aircraft.

If You want to dogfigt in Multiplayer... the real aircraft against this first in large numbers produced variant are the Grumman F4F-3 and -4 "Wildcat" and the Curtiss P-40B/C/D/E... a risky business. With a Hellcat more on equal termes and the Corsair has far more potential. And never forget: The Zero has no bullet-prof glas, no self-sealing tanks, no armour at all!

But... never dogfight the Zero! Not below 220 mph... Go vertical...

Hasey , I do have the read about the Zero , jeez dont you love owning books .. stuff you cannot find on the internet , It would be good to try out a MP .. I have the A2A P-40 , don't have the Wildcat course the have VS Hellcat and AF Corsair are in the later league but i do have them .. be very interesting to compare and take notes .