Fake Japanese World War II aircraft

Totally fake, Hesham, totally fake. All of them.
 
Vietcong said:
I 'm bit confused about the Suzukaze 20.Does It was the real aircraft or just fiction?Could you tell me more about it?
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Complete fake! According to Edwin M. Dyer's "Japanese Secret Projects - Experimental Aircraft of the IJA and IJN 1939-1945", illustrations of the "Suzukaze 20" appeared in the Japanese aviation magazine Sora in April 1941, together with other, equally fictious, designs.

Allied intelligence, however, became convinced that the Suzukaze 20 was a real aircraft, and assigned it the code name Omar. It also appeared in allied aircraft identification manuals.

The Suzukaze 20 is, almost obviously, inspired by the designs of Frenchman Nicholas Roland Payen, perhaps because the Japanese had shown an earlier interest in some of Payen's designs.

A beautiful aircraft, the Suzukaze (and Payens original designs as well), but sadly no more than an illustration.

Regards & all,

Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg
 
See : Fake / Imaginary projects.

Thread opened by Overscan on February 16 ,2008.
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZieEcRROV0

Could you imagine a time when a newspaper couldn't be trusted? Or a comic book wasn't an appropriate source of military intelligence? Amazing, eh?
When war broke out, the Allies were at a loss to understand the Japanese Imperial Naval and Army Air Services' naming systems. To make it easier on a generation of young men who had likely never before heard a word of the Yamato Race's language, code names were given to each aircraft as it was identified. While the man who developed the idea, United States Army Air Force Captain Frank T. McCoy, contributed his taxonomical genius to Japanese and later to Soviet aircraft, he could only work with what he was given. So, here are the glorious warbirds that weren't: from the Gus to the Harry, from the Ben to the Ione. There are also many which received two or three names or were simply mistaken identity. Take an interesting peek at the near misses, second guesses, and overeager eyes of Allied intel, with Japanese Blunder Weapons: the Tactical Air Intelligence Unit Bloopers of the Pacific War.
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Grey Havoc said:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZieEcRROV0

Could you imagine a time when a newspaper couldn't be trusted? Or a comic book wasn't an appropriate source of military intelligence? Amazing, eh?
When war broke out, the Allies were at a loss to understand the Japanese Imperial Naval and Army Air Services' naming systems. To make it easier on a generation of young men who had likely never before heard a word of the Yamato Race's language, code names were given to each aircraft as it was identified. While the man who developed the idea, United States Army Air Force Captain Frank T. McCoy, contributed his taxonomical genius to Japanese and later to Soviet aircraft, he could only work with what he was given. So, here are the glorious warbirds that weren't: from the Gus to the Harry, from the Ben to the Ione. There are also many which received two or three names or were simply mistaken identity. Take an interesting peek at the near misses, second guesses, and overeager eyes of Allied intel, with Japanese Blunder Weapons: the Tactical Air Intelligence Unit Bloopers of the Pacific War.
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Wow! I would never expect to run into one of my own videos!
Thanks! :D
 

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