Aviation "Porn" - For those who like Airplanes

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The USS Nimitz and it's air wing goes through a freak storm and find themselves in December 6 !941.

Have you seen/read the Japanese Manga/Anime series "Zipang?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipang_(manga)

It's basically "Final Countdown" but with a Japanese MSDF Aegis travelling back to the Midway attack, and then participating in subsequent battles from Guadalcanal, Kiska and even the attacks on India. It's a pretty cool (& involved) epic story.

 

[sean miguel]

Have you seen/read the Japanese Manga/Anime series "Zipang?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipang_(manga)

It's basically "Final Countdown" but with a Japanese MSDF Aegis travelling back to the Midway attack, and then participating in subsequent battles from Guadalcanal, Kiska and even the attacks on India. It's a pretty cool (& involved) epic story.

I haven't. But those are fun "what ifs?" When I lived in Japan I saw one where a modern day Japanese Ground Self Defense Force unit goes back in time to feudal Japan and gets embroiled in some war between samurai clans. Kinda like Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, but way more plausible.

 

[sean miguel]

(Finnish) Fighter aces Jorma Karhunen (31 victories), Ilmari Juutilainen (94 victories) and dog Peggy Brown (0 victories). Römpötti, Finland, 1942

 

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An F-35B aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth
that is beautiful.

The colors on that make it look like straight out of a video game.

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I haven't. But those are fun "what ifs?" When I lived in Japan I saw one where a modern day Japanese Ground Self Defense Force unit goes back in time to feudal Japan and gets embroiled in some war between samurai clans. Kinda like Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, but way more plausible.

"I will miss our.... conversations"
Yeah, total "white knight" like the Matt D in that Great Wall movie, but I still enjoyed it. Not many movies/anime about the Meji restoration; either they're full samurai or full Meiji (Kenshin comes to mind)

I remember that movie! Sengoku Jieitai 1549! I've only seen that modern remake though, apparently the original was a film from the 1979. Neat when you think Final Countdown, Sengoku Jieitai and even Tora Tora Tora are all epic pacific WWII movies made within a decade. SJ got its remake, so I have to wonder what TFC or TTT would be like with modern tech. If Bay could make Pearl Harbor look that slick, imagine what a real filmmaker could do.

Speaking of time-slips, some of my other favs are Nobunga's Chef, Nobunaga Concerto, Oda Nobuna no Yabo and others. Not exactly realistic but just light hearted anime featuring time-travelers interacting with Nobunaga.

Lastly, one film I saw on a trans-pacific flight was "Honnōji Hotel", a modern day hotel that had a time portal to Sengoku era Honnoji temple.
Man, this genre really picked up over the last several years.

 

[billyboberic]

My favorite military airplane

 

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Sean, since you seem to have an appreciation of Japanese culture, did you hear the Emperors "last" year end speech? Personally I'm peeved at the whole idea that a monarch can just "quit" after a lifetime of luxury and living off the people.

They should force him to work at a "commoner's" job and pay back what he mooched off of society. At least Hirohito earned his keep.

 

[sean miguel]

Sean, since you seem to have an appreciation of Japanese culture, did you hear the Emperors "last" year end speech? Personally I'm peeved at the whole idea that a monarch can just "quit" after a lifetime of luxury and living off the people.

They should force him to work at a "commoner's" job and pay back what he mooched off of society. At least Hirohito earned his keep.

See my reply to your thread in P&R.

So today I learned that the Russian SU-34 is basically a long range bomber scrunched into the air frame of a fighter. It can fly from Moscow to Vladivostok with a full bomb load only having to air refuel once.

Also learned that there is a toilet and a kitchenette on board. You can actually take a dump and make snacks. In the upcoming models I've heard there is even a tiny billiard table for those really long missions. That's insane.

 

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(Finnish) Fighter aces Jorma Karhunen (31 victories), Ilmari Juutilainen (94 victories) and dog Peggy Brown (0 victories). Römpötti, Finland, 1942

I'm sure the dog has some uncredited kills to her name

 

[sean miguel]

I'm sure the dog has some uncredited kills to her name

Haha. She probably does.

 

[sean miguel]

loved this show.

6 North Korean Migs vs. a single F-15

 

[Supafly]

I like these movies

 

[sean miguel]

I like these movies

loved Firefox.

truly aviation porn.

Kind of in the same vein as that, I read a book about a Soviet pilot who defected by flying his Mig-25 Foxbat to a U.S. air base in Japan. At the time, this was a major coup because little was known of the MIG-25 which was the Soviet's premier interceptor.

 

[sean miguel]

^ Just thinking thinking how in the near future having a human in the cockpit will be an antiquated concept. Not turning a person into a bag of mush is the limiting factor in combat aircraft aeronautics up to this point. Just like a nuclear submarine could be on patrol submerged for years at a time if not for the need to resupply it's human crew.

Bring on the machines.

 

[Rane1071]

 

[sean miguel]

<BWAAAARRRP> Close Air Support: the infrantry's best friend

 

[sean miguel]

Close Air Support: the infrantry's best friend

*infantry

Low altitude ejection

 

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I would have loved to have seen what the Japanese WWII pilots would have done if they had the same freedom to paint their planes as the Americans did.

 

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Maybe not quite the same as American Nose art, but Modern JASDF fighters do have some distinctly Japanese art:

 

[Raider89]

A-10 Thunderbolt II

 

[sean miguel]

^ beautiful. The A-10 seems to be well represented in this thread.

Love this pic:



Those invasion stripes.