Zero Fighter Over Japan

http://news.yahoo.com/zero-fighter-flies-over-japan-1st-time-since-064646682.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3418681/Zero-fighter-flies-Japan-1st-time-WWII.html

first time since WW2..?! found in New Guinea and bought by a Japanese businessman......when I think of the Zero, Caidin's Samurai is what comes to mind
could've been a fight

 

Curses...I thought this was a "newly" airworthy A6M, but it was only purchased from it's American owner.

Looks like NX553TT, I wounder how much he paid for it?

 

I would be happy with a replica remote controlled Zero

 

"I would be happy with a replica remote controlled Zero"

Luxury. ..
I'd be happy with a broken remote control, and rejoice in the fact the batteries were dead.

 

We dreamed of having a broken remote control!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuoVlQOO4xc

 

I am liking that sound...


Rare credit to the Wail for correcting the 'first flight' thing.

Murky, trying to work out which plane is which, isn't it.
I remain slightly confused by the below, but it at least gives rough prices over time for very similar machines, if not the same one precisely:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=553TT&x=0&y=0

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a6m3/3858_replica.html
94-97 - c.$300k
2008 - $1.9m
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/a6m3/3858_replica/zero-for-sale.html#axzz3z4N8Z9FW

http://www.aircraftone.com/aircraft.asp?tn=n553tt

 

They do sound sweet. No exhaust manifolds or turbos like a lot of other radials.

 

Yes, the exhaust manifolds were done away with on the A6M5 Model 52 in order to get a slight boost in speed via engine exhaust. IIRC, it was good for just under a 10 knot increase.

A turbo was experimented with, but proved very unreliable and was given up on.

 

how old is the piston-engine technology?? about 100 years?? now we have jets....the WW2 pilots were moving in ''slow'' motion...knights in battle....will future fighters go faster?? battle faster? will there be future fighters??