JDK's pointless quiz No.6,083

[JDK]

Usual rules: What, where. Mike can't play. Warm feeling prize for the winner, see Jack if you want a pony.



Good luck!

[Nathan]

Well....I think its a Japanese aircraft in captured U.S. markings. I am guessing somewhere based down under!

[LAHarve]

Not sure but it bears a striking similarity to the Zero cockpit/centre section at the IWM in London,


Photographed August 2008.

[JDK]

Well done Len, 100%, and have a warm feeling.

The markings are actually 'ATAIU SEA' For Allied (not American) Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia.

As seen here:

http://www.risingdecals.com/DyingSun/Dy ... flaz15.jpg

There were a lot of photos of Japanese a/c floating around just after the war with these markings on, as they were often the best photos we had of these aircraft flying.

[tom d. friedman]

james, you should be a game show host!!! i saw that pic & was sure i was going to win the world cruise you offered as the grand prize.

[John Dupre]

I remember as a kid seeing pictures of aircraft marked ATAIU SEA without any description of what the markings meant. I spent hours searching for the USS Ataiu Sea or HMS Ataiu Sea and even looked in atlases for the Ataiu Sea!