Another model for you to check out...
This is a Japanese Zero Fighter/Bomber and
it was the terror of the Pacific for a long time.
The Allies had nothing to compete with the Zero
until 1943 when Hellcats and Corsairs started to
enter the battle.
This was the plane most identified with the
attack on Pearl Harbor the morning of December
7, 1941. At 8 o'clock that morning 368 Zeros
dealt American forces their biggest loss of the
war. It was a bomb from a Zero that sent the
battleship
U.S.S. Arizona to the bottom, where she still
resides to this time. The Zero was powered by
a Mitsubishi engine from the same company
that today sends thousand of automobiles to
the United States. At the outbreak of the war
America's first-line fighter was the P-40 Warhawk.
The P-40 was no match for the Zero, which
could climb, maneuver, and outgun our best
plane. U.S. forces captured a Zero and brought
it back to the states, where it was disassembled
and examined thoroughly. Aircraft experts were
told to build American pilots a plane that would
defeat the Zero...and the result was the Corsair.
The first photo is an actual Zero taking off from
a carrier...The rest are my model.
Type - Interceptor fighter/fighter bomber
Powerplant - Type: One Mitsubishi 31 radial piston engine
Horsepower: 1,130
Performance - Max. Speed: 557 km/h (346 mph) at 6000m (19,685 ft.)
Armament - Two 20-mm cannon (in wings) Three 13.2-mm (0.52-in) machine guns -Two in wings and one in fuselage
Plus Launch rails for eight 10-kg (22-lb)
or Two 60-kg (132-lb) air-to-air rockets
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