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World War II: Japan
Aircraft of Japan in WWII.
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1/1 Scale Ki-43 'Oscar'
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Posted: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 11:50 PM UTC
It is a golden era for full-scale modeling, too!

Doug Champlin's 21st Century Oscars

I saw one of these crated up during one of my many pilgrimages to the (sadly, now late-great) Champlin Fighter Museum in the early-mid 1990s. Though I could only see a little through the slats of the rough shipping crate (incidentally, I was equally excited that the bill of lading showed it was shipped from my hometown!), I could tell it was a Hayabusa. I knew that someday I'd get to see one fly again!!

Joe Baugher's Hayabusa files, Part one: Ki-43-I

About those Ki-43 machineguns
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