Yiannis Mitzas

Wrecked Japanese zero Mitsubishi A6M fighter

A Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Model 21 takes off from the aircraft carrier Akagi to attack Pearl Harbor
The Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937. Attacks by Chinese fighter planes on Japanese bombers led the Japanese to develop the concept of fighter escorts. The limited range of the Mitsubishi A5M “Claude” fighter used to escort the bombers caused the Japanese Navy Air staff to commission the Mitsubishi A6M Zero as a long-range land- and carrier-based fighter.

The Zero, which first flew in 1939, was exceedingly agile and lightweight, with maneuverability and range superior to any other fighter in the world at that time.[8] In 1940 Claire Lee Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers, wrote a report to warn his home country of the Zero’s performance. However, United States Department of War analysts rejected the Chennault report as “arrant nonsense” and concluded the performance attributed to the Zero was an aerodynamic impossibility.[9] With the coming of war, the U.S. fighting services learned better? the Zero’s maneuverability outperformed any Allied fighter it encountered for the first two years of the war.[10] According to American flying ace William N. Leonard, “In these early encounters and on our own we were learning the folly of dogfighting with the Zero”.

In this article I would like to share with you a series of detailed photographs.  Modeling inspiration ideas. After the middle of the war in the Pacific theater, the Americans returned to air combat. Quite a few Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground .After the end of the war these wrecks abandoned to the weather conditions. It is a wonderful experience to build such a work ..

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