Japanese Zero flies over Japan for the first time since WW2

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

You stated in your first post that it was the most capable carrier aircraft of the war. That was all that I criticized.

It's all good Schroeder. I was doing too many things at one time and made a mistake.

Thanks for pointing it out and clarifying that the Zero was one of the most capable carrier aircraft of WW2 .

[Oberon]

Mistakes lead to accidents
Accidents lead to delays
Delays lead to inefficiencies
Inefficiency is verboten!

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[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Mistakes lead to accidents
Accidents lead to delays
Delays lead to inefficiencies
Inefficiency is verboten!

Your name has been placed on the list

Have a safe and productive day cycle, citizen.

And Verboten leads to fear and fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to voting Trump.

[Eichhörnchen]

I'm always a bit disappointed by those AT-6's, "doctored" to resemble Zekes in classic Hollywood movies. Only way they could do it back then, I know, without resorting to crappy models...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I'm always a bit disappointed by those AT-6's, "doctored" to resemble Zekes in classic Hollywood movies. Only way they could do it back then, I know, without resorting to crappy models...

And I thought the ones "doctored" for Tora! Tora! Tora! were amazing, given that before that they didn't even try. They just used what they could get, and painted meatballs on them. I vaguely remember one movie about a P-47 squadron, with P-51s pretending to be Messerschitts.

Even Das Boot used T-6s, without any modifications.

[Eichhörnchen]

And then there were two Luftwaffe T-6s shooting up the beaches in The Longest Day

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

And then there were two Luftwaffe T-6s shooting up the beaches in The Longest Day

Bf 108s, actually.

[Oberon]

"This was another great victory for the German Luftwaffe!"

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Bf 108s, actually.

Yes I believe you are right.

Maybe I'm thinking of the aircraft lined up on the apron when James Garner and Donald Pleasence make their escape, although the aircraft they steal does turn out to be authentic: a Bucker Bestmann.

[Rockin Robbins]

Hold it! We can have actors playing parts but planes aren't allowed to play parts in pretend warfare for entertainment?

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Hold it! We can have actors playing parts but planes aren't allowed to play parts in pretend warfare for entertainment?

Not when the movie is supposed to be historiclly accurate when it's being watched by history lovers, it's just about as bad as when in the movie Pearl Harbor there where modern USN destoryers in the background and no-one tried to make them look like WW2 tin cans!

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

[...] , with P-51s pretending to be Messerschitts. ...

I see what you did there..


B.t.w. the "Buecker Bestmann" was still used decades later for aerobatics, produced by the czech company "Zlin".