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(note: Not sure if this is the right sub-forum for this. If not please move it to the appropriate one.)

I was looking up images on the web for the Kugisho/Yokosuka MXY5 glider when I found this:

The caption says it is a "Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka rocket powered kamikaze attack plane at Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas USA"

But I know it is not. It looks like a simple bomb with wings and a cockpit. This can't be real, can it? ??? But then why would it be at museum? :eek:
 

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it's look, that could be a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka model 11

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6081.0
 
Must admit that's a good suggestion that it's an Yokosuka MXY7.

Though the proportions look.. 'Off'..

Maybe some one commisioned a 'Mock up' and the creators couldn't find good technical details?

Very best to all.
 
Many Ohka variants were projected. You can find it all in Justo Miranda's latest book

https://www.amazon.com/Axis-Suicide-Squads-Japanese-Projects/dp/1781555656
 
I agree that the thing looks like (and most probably actually is) a rather bad and incorrect mockup of the Ohka 11 made for the museum.
 
it looks like early allied interruptions in recognition books which were probably based on eyewitness reports
 
Looking the rather simple support,its perhaps a glass fibre construction
in an attempt to represent the Ohka..
 
There are a good number of quite poor wooden mockups in museums, and this appears to be yet another.
 

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