Ki-43 Type I - Only one in the world, and it flys.

[SOLIDKREATE]

Original Source: http://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Japan/Nakajima-Ki-43-Hayabusa-(Oscar).aspx

 

I wonder if they would be open to sharing data about this aircraft. There is no doubt they have translated the Japanese data and flight manual of this aircraft. I live 30min away, put me in coach.

 

 

Ki-43 'Oscar' Type I

 

Edited November 18, 2020 by VA_SOLIDKREATE

[Guest deleted@188321]

Finding reliable, useable data on Japanese aircraft really isn't as difficult as some key players around here have made it out to be...

Three words...

Game.

Engine.

Limitations.

[Feathered_IV]

It’s not supposed to fly.  It did a short hop once by accident however when doing a taxi display at an air show.  

[Gambit21]

8 hours ago, VA_SOLIDKREATE said:

I wonder if they would be open to sharing data about this aircraft. There is no doubt they have translated the Japanese data and flight models of this aircraft. I live 30min away, put me in coach.

 

Translated the flight model?

7 hours ago, randybutternubs said:

Finding reliable, useable data on Japanese aircraft really isn't as difficult as some key players around here have made it out to be...

Three words...

Game.

Engine.

Limitations.

 

?

[SOLIDKREATE]

13 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

 

Translated the flight model?

 

?

 

Manual.

[Gambit21]

2 minutes ago, VA_SOLIDKREATE said:

 

Manual.

 

Ahh... ??

[DBFlyguy]

On 11/17/2020 at 4:56 PM, Feathered_IV said:

It’s not supposed to fly.  It did a short hop once by accident however when doing a taxi display at an air show.  

 

Seems to have flown more than once, not by accident:

 

 

Edited November 22, 2020 by DBFlyguy

[Feathered_IV]

Nice vids! ??
That is a different aircraft however.  It’s one of the new-build Ki-43 IIs which were made several years ago along the same lines as the reproduction Fw-190s and 262s that you sometimes see.   The Ki-43 I is on static display and hasn’t left the ground since that one time it did a fast taxi into the wind. 

[SOLIDKREATE]

Hey this place looks familiar ?

[ksetuni]

On 11/17/2020 at 4:56 PM, Feathered_IV said:

It’s not supposed to fly.  It did a short hop once by accident however when doing a taxi display at an air show.  

Actually according the the museum that owns it that is not the case.

 

"This Ki-43 is the last known type-Ib Oscar left in the world. While it has been restored to flyable condition and has flown in the past, it may never take to the skies again due to its extreme rarity."

 

Sadly I can understand that as Ive nearly cried when hearing about warbird crashes and losing such priceless treasures. Especially when they are rare planes.

Edited December 4, 2020 by ksetuni

[CanadaOne]

3 hours ago, ksetuni said:

Sadly I can understand that as Ive nearly cried when hearing about warbird crashes and losing such priceless treasures. Especially when they are rare planes.

 

I think it was in an article in Smithsonian Air & Space, they said after the war P-38s were bulldozed into the ground or cut up to make razor blades. 

 

Oh dear... 

[Props]

I remember seeing an old US film on Youtube some years ago of US personnel bulldozing huge piles of Japanese aircraft into mounds and then burning them in place on various airfields right after Okinawa! So sad.

 

There are currently no surviving examples of the Ki44 Tojo! That's a shame as it was a good looking radial too.

 

There is one Ki84 left in the world and it resides in a museum in Japan. It was flying in the '70s and there are videos of that on Youtube. 

 

From various documentary videos:

You could buy a surplus P-38 for $1200.00 dollars immediately after the war (1946 dollars).

A P-51 including 2 spare engines for $750.00 in 1958 (these were probably F-51s). Can you imagine - for the cost of one graphics card!

And Great Britain was selling off Mosquitos at $1500.00 each in 1954. Spartan Air Services of Canada bought 15 of these of which only one (to my knowledge) is flying today.

 

Boy, I wish someone had bought a couple of these for me as Christmas presents back in day! 

[ksetuni]

3 hours ago, CanadaOne said:

 

I think it was in an article in Smithsonian Air & Space, they said after the war P-38s were bulldozed into the ground or cut up to make razor blades. 

 

Oh dear... 

Yep it was commonplace. Or various naval planes pushed overboard to make room for all the soldiers to come home.

 

Ive always been fascinated by this era and there is nothing that sounds like a warbird.  Even running a 4360 taken off a KC97 in A&P school was pretty cool.

[Art-J]

On 12/4/2020 at 2:41 PM, Props said:

A P-51 including 2 spare engines for $750.00 in 1958 (these were probably F-51s). Can you imagine - for the cost of one graphics card!

 

More graphics cards as the price is would be an equivalent of about $7000 in today's money :D. Still a bargain, though!