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Title: What is wrong with this?
Post by: oakranger on October 18, 2011, 12:08:17 AM: OK, ignore the background crap and focus on the A6M alone. What is wrong with it? Want to make sure i am seeing the same thing.

(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp20/skbluestem/b-471558-Pearl_Harbor_movie.jpg)
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: APDrone on October 18, 2011, 12:22:25 AM: Aside from the A6M being a B5N2?

2 bladed prop, probably. Pretty sure they all had 3 blades.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: oakranger on October 18, 2011, 12:26:56 AM: Quote from: APDrone on October 18, 2011, 12:22:25 AM
Aside from the A6M being a B5N2?

2 bladed prop, probably. Pretty sure they all had 3 blades.

Yep, i saw what thought. Thanks.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: Skyguns MKII on October 18, 2011, 12:28:03 AM: prop doesn't even look like it would give enough thrust to even make a paperplane go..
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: oakranger on October 18, 2011, 12:33:50 AM: Quote from: Skyguns MKII on October 18, 2011, 12:28:03 AM
prop doesn't even look like it would give enough thrust to even make a paperplane go..

Especially when caring an +1,000 lbs torpedo. (Oh, I may have set myself up on this remark)
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: saggs on October 18, 2011, 01:27:04 AM: Quote from: Skyguns MKII on October 18, 2011, 12:28:03 AM
prop doesn't even look like it would give enough thrust to even make a paperplane go..

I've always thought the same thing when looking at a T6 or SNJ, large(ish) plane for a single, and only a 2 blade prop. But it still works pretty well. Granted it's not the fastest of planes but....

EDIT:

Hmmmm, now that I look at it again, could that BE a modified T6, one of the Tora, Tora, Tora "Zeros"? Hard to tell without a profile (for me anyway, I'm sure one of the experts will set me straight.)
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: bozon on October 18, 2011, 07:37:59 AM: Quote from: Skyguns MKII on October 18, 2011, 12:28:03 AM
prop doesn't even look like it would give enough thrust to even make a paperplane go..
CGI is very light. It sometimes float into the air on its own.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: branch37 on October 18, 2011, 08:05:32 AM: From what I've seen that plane does look alot like a T-6 just from the engine and cockpit layout.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: Maverick on October 18, 2011, 11:01:42 AM: That appears to be a T-6 modified to look like the Japanese plane. Pretty common situation for hollywierd given the rather scarce numbers of real zero's. The A6M's in the movie will have the same ridge on each wing as well. I loved the one line where the guy said they couldn't outrun the zero's so they had to outfly them at Pearl...... yeah right.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: Tigger29 on October 18, 2011, 11:05:43 AM: The last time I saw the Tora Tora Tora airshow they mentioned something about those being the same planes that were used in that movie, so it's probably one of those.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: oakranger on October 18, 2011, 01:43:44 PM: Quote from: Tigger29 on October 18, 2011, 11:05:43 AM
The last time I saw the Tora Tora Tora airshow they mentioned something about those being the same planes that were used in that movie, so it's probably one of those.

I believe that there was a A6M3 on the set that crash landed.
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: guncrasher on October 18, 2011, 02:39:58 PM: the japanese torpedoes had a wood "case" around the propeller to stop them from sinking too far in the shallow waters of pearl harbor. read that back in the 70's, hope I am not mistaken.

semp
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: Rino on October 18, 2011, 02:41:08 PM: Think they used BT-13s for the Kate mods..I know they did for Tora, Tora, Tora.
(http://www.daveswarbirds.com/tora/pics/aircraft/gray_Kates_take_off.jpg)

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/tora/Kate.htm (http://www.daveswarbirds.com/tora/Kate.htm)
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: M0nkey_Man on October 18, 2011, 05:20:29 PM: Quote from: APDrone on October 18, 2011, 12:22:25 AM
Aside from the A6M being a B5N2?

2 bladed prop, probably. Pretty sure they all had 3 blades.
at the last airshow, all the A6M2s had 2 blades
Title: Re: What is wrong with this?
Post by: mbailey on October 18, 2011, 05:49:44 PM: Couple of photos of the Modified T6 taken this year at the MAAM airshow, note the last pic.......I think whats in the movie poster is one...biggest difference is this one (in my pic) has the fixed gear and wheel spats

(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/2011%20airshow/IMG_4489.jpg)
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/2011%20airshow/IMG_4491.jpg)
(http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/2011%20airshow/IMG_4455.jpg)