July 3rd, 2009, 03:09 AM
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Re: Name that plane
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Originally Posted by MastahCheef117
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What the hell?
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Haha ok I will just tell you lol
It is the
Nagoya-Sento KI-001 ("Ben")
The Nagoya-Sento Ki 001 was a "foo" or non existing fighter. After the Pearl Harbor attack the military intelligence collected every piece of downed Japanese aircraft they could find. From that operation they came up with this aircraft. They found a manufacturing plate with the words Nogoya Sento, they thought that was a manufacturer, but it was a plant location. From the wings and tail group, it looks like they found parts of an Aichi type 99 Val. It was 1943 before the war department figured out there was no such a plane.
lets try this one
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