listen the reason the Japanese had some really good success with crappy airplanes was because the other guys either didnt have any airplanes or had even worst planes than the Japanese. Once we started bringing better airplanes we kicked the butts all the way to Japan. as cool as it would be to have every single airplane out there. the fricking a26 was used with more success than some obsolete Japanese bomber that were only able to bomb because it had no opposition. as soon as there was opposition guess what, they all got shot down.
as for the bike with the side car. that would be a squad event. I'll bet it would even be racing events. I know we would.
semp
It wasn't the planes that made a difference, it was the pilots. Look at the Japanese Navy before and after the battle of midway, it disappeared. They failed to train pilots, and if you look further in the Guadalcanal campaign, most of the aces of the tainan air group were far better pilots then anything the american's had or any other country besides Germany at the time. The constant combat over Guadalcanal / Moresby which was hundreds of miles away, the stress of combat and losses took its toll. Eventually the Japanese could not replace its losses and ended up putting rookies in the fighters.
Before Midway the US navy couldn't touch the Japanese one on one, fact the KB was far to strong and the American's simply didn't have the training to match the Japanese even with an equal carrier battle.
The Japanese were not looking for a perlonged war either, they hoped with the smashing of the Pearl Harbor battleships (and carriers) the U.S. would be more interesting in sidelining in which the Japanese would of been able to build more carriers / battleships.
Germany as well - had trained pilots, but at the time the Me-109 was not exactly the worlds most "advanced" fighter, the D.520 and Spitfire gave it to much trouble in france. You can look at Russia and laugh at the fact the poor Pilot quality was a major problem.
Japanese bombers were obsolete huh? why not read up on the Prince of Wales and Repulse, those "crappy" bombers sank the prize of the Royal Navy.