Looks like some billionaire will be putting a G4M Betty in the air for the first time in over 70 years.
To: Snickering Hound
To: Snickering Hound
Mitsubihsi made the Betty. And the Zero fighter. Both were about the only two good aircraft the Japs made.
3 posted on
01/07/2019 2:14:28 PM PST by
jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Snickering Hound
4 posted on
01/07/2019 2:23:19 PM PST by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Snickering Hound
Looks like all they need to fly is some penetrating oil, some paint, and new ball bearings (it’s all ball bearings these days), and they’ll be ready to fly.
5 posted on
01/07/2019 2:26:03 PM PST by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Snickering Hound
The Smithsonian collection had an intact Betty after the war. When Korea flared up, and the vacant Douglas Aircraft plant in Chicago that stored the collection was needed again, it was scrapped, with only the cockpit/nose section being sent east with the rest of the planes.
20 posted on
01/07/2019 4:11:32 PM PST by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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