Warbird Information Exchange

Shame there is only 1 Dinah in the world, would love to see one fly.

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Andrew King
Air Museum Director with no Museum to Direct
Open to Suggestions

Ed Maloney, bless him, rescued two or three Japanese warbirds during the NASM storage downsizing in the 50s. Included was a Ki84 Hayate that even then was the only survivor of the type; it was restored at the old Ontario Air Museum and flown on the power of its original Homare engine...Mr Maloney and crew were way ahead of their time!

(When I first became keen on warbirds, I read about the Ontario Air Museum and wanted to go there forthwith...not realizing that that Ontario was the one in California, not the one in Canada where I live! To this day I have never been to PoF/Chino, nor to California at all for that matter. The Ki84, rather sadly, is now static in a museum in Japan, apparently in nowhere near the condition it was in when Maloney had it.)

S.

I never saw it when it was in the US, but the build standard of warbirds have improved a lot since then. I suspect that the reason the Ki-84 was made flight worthy was because at the time, the museum really didn't have the technology/money required to make new spar caps for the Zero and the Frank was easier to restore.

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[Thread title is ridiculous btw]

POF's Raiden at Travel Town in L.A.'s Griffith Park, circa 1962:

I think this is from the USC Archive; the Raiden was displayed along with P-40N 44-7192.

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

This might too generic of a questions but would any one happen to know of any technology that the United States was able to acquire from Japan and Germany that we had implemented in our own aircraft due to bringing home the spoils of war?

The swept wing F-86.

The swept wing.
The axial flow turbojet
ballistic missile technology (engines as well as airframe)
Boost-Glide (skip-Glide) orbital reentry techniques
Ramjet technology

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.