Japanese Zero Type32 fighter restoration
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2014
- Restoration of a Type 0 Model 32 Japanese Zero fighter at the Legend Flyer's hanger in Everett, WA.
See how the plane looked in October 2012 here: • Japanese Zero renovation
Here is the history of the plane:
This Zero, serial number 3143, was manufactured by Mitsubishi in September 1942. Its model designation was AEMB, Navy Type O Carrier, Fighter Model 32. It was a Presentation model' (called Hokoku aircraft) funded by a Middle school in Manchuria, the Manshukoku Chuto Gakko Go (Manchurian Secondary Schools), and had graphics on the fuselage side referencing the school. The airplane was assigned to the Japanese Air Group 252, 22nd Air Flotilla. The main force of Air Group E2 was originally placed on board the aircraft carrier TAIYO and participated in the defense of QUADALCANAL between November 1942 and February 1943. The Air Group 252 also fought from bases at RABAUL, BALIALE, LAE and MUNDA. The group was then ordered to the Marshall Islands. It was assigned to the Japanese air base on the island of TAROA, located at MALGELOP ATOLL in the Marshall Islands in March of 1943.
The island of TAROA was small, about two miles in diameter, and had two runways. The Japanese were in the process of constructing a third runway when the American forces began a bombing campaign, which eventually led to the abandonment of the island by the Japanese leaving all their equipment behind, including our Zero. - Наука
THE MAN SPOKE SOFTLY, RADIO BACKGROUND NOISE, AND A HEAVY ACCENT MADE IT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. GREAT TO SEE A WW2 PLANE COMING BACK TO LIFE.
Ben Johnson is doing a great deal of this rebuild and its going well. He's extremely knowledgeable and sees the artwork in the restoration.
8 years to build one Japanese Zero Type32 fighter. If that's how long the Japanese took to build them, the war would have ended years before any of them got airborne as the Spruce Goose did.
Gonna be a Beauty!!!👍
amazing!
I'll get you Boyington!!
Salut to japanese great people.
There planes were a work of art with the guns not sticking out.
Where is the final video of unveiling?
when will this duralumin fly?
Looks like they aren’t using the correct primer. That green is a US chromate Type,the Japanese used a metallic transparent blue primer.
I think it depended on the Company. Nakijima, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, etc. all had their own. Maybe for ease and longevity they are just using American type of primer
@@warrenstemphly5756 I worked for one of the major US plane makers and we had to change primers in the 90's to environmental reasons. Perhaps they just can't get the original stuff anymore.
Look back in the aft fuselage, the primer there is blue.
Do you have any original skin left of the plane left that you are welling to sale?
Seems it's made of metal?
Any news about Type 32 recently?
I will check and see.
My connection to the restoration has quit. He said the politics surrounding the restoration became to difficult.
thats really a shame :(
If it got hit it went up like a Roman candle
What happened with this project?
I heard is was stopped.
What is true of that sad news?
The Green Paint please? Is it to stop corrosion or some other reason. ?
The green is the color of the coating that is placed on the aluminum aircraft to prevent corrosion while the aircraft is waiting to be coated with the appropriate top-coat
Thank you, thank you very much.
Wasn't it rather new fabrication than restoration?
Probably almost totally new fabrication.
Made out of rice paper flew on pine cones
Its more better if you give the restored planes to poor country but i agree more to give the restored plane to philipines
+Death Games Smaller countries lack the resources or local interest to restore or care for them. A few years back, a very intact P-38 was dug out of the mud in Guadalcanal and the local officials wanted to scrap it immediately until a local resident stepped up and filed the paperwork to keep it. It will never fly but at least it was spared from the scrapper. See here: www.warbirdsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/P-38J-44th-FS-2014-cook-via-AEM.jpg
If it's original, restore it, yes, then fly it over Japan, jump out and drop it in the ocean. That would make my grandparent's generation's day. A stunt like that might wake Japan up.
Why would they need to do that? What's wrong with flying this around?
Calling these aircraft “restorations “is total rubbish..these are complete replicas..and don’t deserve to be classed as ww11 aircraft..so stop this misleading title..all modern metals electrics and plumbing..are used to replicate ww11 aircraft..REPLICA..
Still Cool
Better to have a replica than nothing at all.
I visited this airframe several times while it was under restoration in Fort Collins, CO. Your statement "all modern metals electrics and plumbing" is wildly incorrect.
I agree to an extent. Trying to pass it off as the same serial number is egregious, but there's grace in a new build opposed to a replica. If they would just say "Yes. This is not the zero we mapped it from, but a new member of that planes class." I would be fine with it. Hell, if they even melted down the original metal and used it to build a new airframe, I'd let them call it a restoration. Either way, we have enough of these ""Restored"" Zeros. Considering there's an airworthy Zero complete with its original airframe and engine, why not make a replica of something that actually needs representation like a Claude or a Kate?
Do you think any original ww2 aircraft exist by your definition, engines are replaced, skins, wings, spars, instruments everything is replaced as it needs to be, these aircraft are 85 years old plus!!! any WW2 aircraft like this lots and lots of things constantly need to be replaced or rebuilt frequently and everything that can be used is, everything that needs replacing and is no longer available is copied and made to the highest current standard.