An Operational Japanese Zero Fighter Plane Flies High in Houston, USA
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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About this video: Zero squadrons were the villains of Pearl Harbor and the Pacific air-war that followed. How did American pilots defeat them? The Smithsonian Institution celebrates many of Americas greatest heroes, so it might be surprising to some that its Air & Space Museum houses a fighter plane that was one of America's greatest villains. Squadrons of Japanese Zero fighter planes were responsible for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor that left thousands of Americans dead. The Zero was legendary for its speed and agility, which were the reasons they were so vastly superior to American flyers during WWII. Or maybe not...
Museum Secrets travels to a Houston TX air-show featuring one of the last remaining operational Zeros. With the help of Zero pilot Warren Pietsch, we investigate the secrets of a great American nemesis.
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that dude is the OG weeb
Comrade Nikolai I was gonna say that
Comrade Nikolai, you read my mind comrade!
Hahahahah
Fuck no
he unlocked the eternal mangekyo sharingan
I'm very glad that someone love Mitsubishi ZERO is in not only Japan but also the US.
Thank you very much for your deep caring for ZERO.
This ZERO must love you too.
高橋優介 私も好きなゼロです！
Haha I hope it kisses him goodnight
There's a truly original Zero in California, it's an A6M5
All real pilots love the Zero. It was- and IS- a fabulous design and deserves to be to be immortalized and remembered as a true example of perfection.
Not just the US. The whole aviation community throughout the world loves the Zero. Here in Brazil there are many fans of this beauty.
the processing looks freaking modern on this plane! Japanese were VERY innovative with this plane!
I love Zero, it’s such a beautifully proportional plane.
What a beautiful piece of history.
Really sad but beautiful
@@Luis-mdvI'm assuming sad because of these planes being designed for one way trips?
@@ScarecrowActualZeros were offensive fighter craft, but kamakzi tactics were the result of desperation. A single life and plane being able to incapacitate a US battleship was "worth it."
in 1941, average Japanese navel pilot had 800 hours of flight time, in their hands, this plane was deadly. good video!
til the end of the war when the average had about 20
True, but there was at least one unit made up entirely of aces by the end of the war.
@@ramblinnernd5905 weren't they reserved for anti-bomber missions because the noobs couldn't do it
@creepyshadow556
Yeah, but they still had some dogfights too. A pretty cool unit, despite their allegiance.
Naval*😎
I love WW2 fighter planes. So iconic. The Zero, the BF 109, Spitfire, Mustang, and the Yak-9. They live on as legends.
In 1969 when I was 7 I lived in Ewa Beach Hawaii. Late one afternoon I heard the drone of radial engine aircraft flying over the jungle near our house. I ran out the front door and there was a squadron of Japanese Zeros flying over the jungle (i.e. mock ups for a movie being filmed). I ran back in the house and said "mom, didn't we beat them already?!" It was absolutely surreal seeing this 28 years after it had actually happened in the place where it happened.
What if there just lost in time ghost planes traped souls in their aircafts
@@mintaddict4927 That thought also crossed my 7 yr old mind as well LOL
Those planes were converted AT-6 Texan and BT-13 Vultee World War Two trainer planes for the Pearl Harbor movie, "Tora! Tora! Tora!". It is considered the best Pearl Harbor movie in existence. And not only that, but those exact same planes that flew near your house: They still fly today. The air group that fly them to this day are the, "Tora! Tora! Tora! Flight Group". I have always been fascinated by those planes. The Kate's, the Val's, and the Zero's.
@@ImperialGamer5 Thanks. Good info and accurate
I believe the film you saw being made was TORA TORA TORA!
Some cool intimate details that no one seems to mention whenever they make documentaries about planes. Had no idea they had little steps that pop out.
I knew both these things but I grew up around airplanes my pops has his parked at the hangar at the airport.
CaptHawkeye I guess it makes sense, since only a small portion of the wing folds and the wingspan was very long to increase the range and maneuverability.
These are japanese ways of building things, throughout considerations n craftmanship
I knew about the steps thanks to another UA-cam video. I can see why people called this the Information Age. I don't remember where I learned about the folding wings from. I think it was from the movie 'Pearl Harbor.' It could be 'Tora Tora Tora,' but I don't remember the details of that film.
Looking at the condition of this plane, I bet its paintjob and overall structure is in better shape than the majority of Zeroes in actual service back in 41-45.
As far as I can tell, it's an original one, just cleaned up absolutely perfectly. (This guy would have had far more time to spend making it look pretty than the Japanese did after all.)
Evaluation reports on captured A6Ms early in the war mentioned the high level of manufacturing refinement of both the airframe and the Sakai 12 engine. Later in the war manufacturing quality suffered somewhat due to the extreme logistical pressure put on Japanese industry. But an early war Model 21 like this was probably just as precisely assembled (although certainly not as shiny).
I'm sure the plane has had alot of the sheetmetal redone and lots of rivet work as well to make it pass safety inspection to make it air worthy today. I'm sure back in the war they were cranking these things out and cutting corners towards the end. To think back then all that work I to building a plane all to have someone deliberately smash it into the side of a battle ship.
@@briang4470 When your government tells you that you're the last fighters standing before your family get rapped by war hungry invaders, and that your sacrifice would make you a god-like being in the other world, it's no wonder some uneducated people believed the lie and crashed willingly. The other options was making your own family parias.
I'm being a bit hypocrite here though : without war, no war-planes !
@@Steak818 modern day Trumpers
My favorite ww2 plane
1. A6M Zero
2. Mustang
3. Bf planes
4. Spitfire
5. Yak 9
Nice
Don't forget the stuka b2
@@српскикраљ nyoooooooom
Corsair’s r cool to because of their wings but, the zero is amazing. I also like the b 17, b 25, and the b 29
Also, the bf 109
The power of Japanese engineering
Gorgeous plane. Glad to see there are still some around today.
the wind rises?
I'm not alone Here Lol
Definitely not!
One of the last surviving exemple of this beautifull bird : (
Airplanes are dreams...
Get an A+ in your Maths exam you dumb child !!
河口湖飛行機博物館にピカピカの２１型があります。
飛行許可が下りないと聞きました。残念。
どうにか国内で飛ばせてあげたい。
安部首相、お願い致しますｗ。
4 guys are Helcats owners!:(
Looks like Grumman decided to manufacture 20 more!
55 now
I mean... The Hellcat was a nice plane. Wildcat was shit tho.
AlexModeling PURTUGAL !??
The A6M is among the most beautiful aircraft ever made! I love that sky grey colour, as well.
One of the best/most maneuverable fighter plane in ww2
Only because it had no armor and no resealable fuel tanks. Makes it very easy to shoot down.
Russian planes are biased.
Which was true only for so long, later on fuel tank extinguishers and armor was added. Feel free to research the matter.
SpUngE until the F4U came and the Hellcat and the P51D
SpUngE
It's a good aircraft but it could be better.
It's a beauty for sure but with a tragic ending. The designer, Jiro Horikoshi never intended to let it become a suicide bomber which in reality upset him a lot.
I love the A6M, it will always be my favorite WW2 fighter aircraft,
Same here. Wish I could fly one someday.
Juan Manuel Penaloza
I'd be happy just sit in one to see what its like, I own a piece of one that , the Zero A6M3-32 3148 from Taroa
I realy prefer the spitfire mk2a
As critical as I am to the japanese war effort, the Zero is absolutely my favorite aircraft of WW2. I love it. I've been in love with it since I was a small child. While other people fawned over Spits and Mustangs, I was always looking at the Zero. I love how beautiful it it, how well it was designed all things considered, and how it encompassed the spirit and doctrines of an entire nation manifest into a flying weapon. I mean, the Zero simply screams 'Samurai'. Alas, the amount of research I have put into this lovely aircraft showed me just how flawed such a national doctrine was. You could actually drawn parallels between the rise and fall of the Zero with the rise and fall of Japan during the war. Nevertheless, if I could own only 1 WW2 aircraft, it would be the Zero.
SpenzOT You should watch The Wind Rises, by Miyazaki. A wonderful wonderful movie about the Zero.
what a beauty.... you lucky lucky lucky devil.....so jealous!!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my mind the Zero was a utilitarian design, not unattractive or attractive. Similar to most radial engined aircraft like the P-47, Hellcat, Wildcat, FW-190A etc. Not that radial engined aircraft couldn't be attractive like the Staggerwing or Corsair, but generally they weren't.
Cool! Thanks for sharing. If the Mitsubishi car company theoretically were to come out with a brand called "Zero", I bet many of today's school children wouldn't catch it. Thanks for keeping this facet of history alive.
Let's hope the driver does not fly it into a solar eclipse
Someone gets the reference
Zero no Tsukaima?
I get it :)
from the rising sun movie?
I see what you did there with that reference.
it might get mistaken for a dragon..
No matter how the WW2 was terrifying,
Zéro fighteris definitely beautiful.
I love the zero for the complete opposite reasons I also love the big, heavy, powerful, fast, fat, flying tank the P47 is
The Zero is a drift missile, while the Thunderbolt is a muscle car with wings and 8 .50 cals
I really love the fearsome look and sleekness of the infamous Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter Plane. It's actually my Number 1# World War 2 Fighter Plane of all time and I'm hoping to get COBI's newly released version of this amazing Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter Plane set maybe by my next Birthday, or even by next Christmas.
Everybody gangsta till some 90 year old man sees that thing flying above.
My Japanese Grandfather in pearl harbor* (But with a Japanese Zero) my great grandfather was in WW2 as a Japanese he passed away last year so, when it's his birthday I go to Japan visit his tomb then I go flying a Japanese Zero (without guns I'm a pilot) and I just get
flashbacks of the battles that happened in the Pacific
sakai saburo ?
Actually there are five. This is one of the last ones to be restored......so far.
Holy shi*, that plane looks like it was made yesterday!
The Wind Rises brought me here
soooo cool. Japanese ingenuity and engineering is marvelous.
I was wondering why japanese cars are so good...
The engineering of this plane is spectacular
Favorite aircraft by country
America: p51 mustang
B26 marauder
p39 aircobra
b29 Stratofortress
b17 flying fortress
Great Britain: typhoon
Wellington
mosquito
Lancaster
swordfish
spitfire
Germany: fw ta 152
me 262
ju88
Do 335
Do 217
He 177
Italy: sm.79
p.108 (this probably the only heavy bomber designed to carry torpedoes)
Fiat g.55
re.2005
MC.205
Russia: Ilyushin 2
Ilyushin 4
yak fighters
la-5
Japan: a6m zero all variants
ki67
g8n renzan
ki61
ki83
b7a ryusei
b6n tenzan
d4y susei
ki43 otsu
n1k and ki84
tell me some of your favorite aircraft.
I love the Bf 109 all variants. I flow it in Il2. Than spit, hurricane, fw 190 and ta152, me163 Komet and iconic junker ju 87 stuka.
Such an awesome aircraft! It was well ahead of its time when entered into service. Ruled the sky until the Hellcat and Corsair arrived. Than it became quickly obsolate. Especially because the high command in Japan wouldn't let the engineers to put a better and much more powerful engine into the Zero's airframe, so they had to keep the rather weak but lightweight Sakae 21. When they have realized how wrong they were it was too late.
No. You were wrong. The time when the Hellcat and Corsair arrived, the Japanese considered trying to either create a new plane or a much powerful engine that would buff thr Zero's performance but you know. Japanese haven't yet created a much powerful engine at that time because they're so slow of trying to create powerful engines so they were forced to used old Zero models to face those planes. Tbh, I love the N1K2-J and A6M5 over the A6M2 and A6M3
アメリカ人が零戦を愛してくれるのはとても嬉しいです。
私も零戦は大好きですが、
同じくらいF4F4ワイルドキャットが大好きです。
私はフライングタイガースのＰ40が好きですね。サメが似合う。
I might be German but I love the Japanese and Japanese culture and especially the zero
Wait a minute…..
@@Nicholas3412 yesss....
Mr Peach was my pilot when I got to fly in a P-51 over Galveston Bay. Barrel rolls, a split S and being wingtip to wingtip with another P-51. Unforgettable. The Zero was there in the hanger along with several other WW2 warplanes. A great day!
The nose has a tendency to dip towards naval ships.
Probably the most iconic fighter plane produced by Japan. Towards the end of WWII, the Japanese Zero became obsolete as the Allies developed counters and superior planes to the Japanese Zero, along with the severe loss of experienced and skilled pilots and the plane's serious weaknesses.
Wonder if I can buy and own a zero? Or I'm going to try and find one and refurbish it to make it flyable again and I'll think I'm going to only have two planes which would be the f-4c Phantom 2 and the A6M2 zero fighter most likely!
very nice toy... would love to have one to fly over Pearl Harbor some early Sunday morning on April Fool's Day...
Lol
Man this thing is mint,thank you for the video,gorgeous airplane.
零式二十一型甲 -- Zero Model 21, type-Kou with 7.62mm machine guns.
If the Luftwaffe had these during the Battle of Britain they would have won. That 6 hour plus endurance would have kept the sky clear of Spitfires.
Just genuinely one of most interesting planes out ther
It’s a close race, but I consider the Zero to be more beautiful than the Spitfire.
I don’t want it…
I NEED IT
The zero could climb really well 3000 feet per minute big engine light weight no protection for the pilot. It was designed to out turn, and climb underpowered enemy aircraft designed in the 1930's like the F4F wildcat. Once the American's built much higher HP aircraft like the P-51, Hell Cat, and F4u Corsair the zero was no match for these. The Japanese did build newer aircraft that did match them nearing the end of the war.
Most informative. I didn't know about the little steps to get into the cockpit and the levers for the wing folds.
That dude was JDM before JDM was even popular!
BANZAI!
For a radial fighter the A6M was a very aerodynamic design.
Arguably the best dog fighter of WWII or very close to it.
Thank Jiro Hirokoshi.
Nice job mate! A light aerobatic craft.
Maneuver was it's Fortai. At relatively slow speed.
It was Samaria sword to it's pilots.
Long range also with light fuel mixtures.
bear in mind that this particular aircraft has no guns so is lighter than a standard Zero by a couple of hundred pounds.
The Zero is one of the greatest fighter aircraft of all time. All of its lines are beautiful. Brilliant engineering and performance that could easily out-dogfight any aircraft in the world until the introduction of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
My favorite aircraft of each ww2 country, Japan: A6M, US: P40, Germany: Bf109, Britain: Spitfire, Soviet Union: non
Me: Japan: A6M, US: P-51 Mustang, Britain: Spitfire, Germany: ME 262, Soviet: (none)
Stalin: GO TO GULAG!!!!
Lol, an American in a Zero looks like the old Marmaduke cartoons where there's a Great Dane in a compact car.
spirit of samurai..
light armour but speedy , manouvreable and gunny... woundable but deadlly...
His bandanna has the kanji 'kamikaze' on it; kinda ominous dontcha think?
It would be cool if people made reproduction WWII planes.
There are there's even companies that will make you reproduction Tanks, it's expensive as fuck though but that's how the Smithsonian converted their Grisly into a Sherman.
They do just without the guns and correct engines
I don't think it's necessary to wear that Kamikaze headband,kinda ridiculous~
+Jo Es sure, if you shut yours first Jody~
+DayDay Poe Please don't say that. War is hell and many good lives and youth were lost on both sides. For each life lost there could have been many contributions that that person could have made. Lets hope we never have a war like that again. I had the chance to see the world war one museum in Kansas City and it was surprising what the general idea was before that war that some nations had. Among other things they thought war was good for nations. In the museum they said something around the lines of "We hoped that the war would be a thing with great and heroic deeds and that we'd all be home by Christmas"(1914) but it lasted for four more years and 9 million people died. Their idea was wrong and I'm still not sure why WW1 ever happened. Take care.
+黃信樺 fuck up chinachong china cant made airplane haha
***** wow,never thought shit could be built as tall as you,Poly~
***** you know what,Poly, I bet your family and friends never thought they actually live with and talk to a pile of walking shit for a long time~
Japanese zeroes has a kill-death ratio of 12-1. It was a monster in the Pacific from 1940-1942. Until they were outclassed by newer allied fighter planes.
I think the culture preserved by Americans is wonderful.
The way the wing tip folds so just so elegant complicated too but beautiful design
My great-grandpa recalled seeing Zeros flying above the Philippines during World War 2. What an absolute powerhouse the Zero is.
ZERO IS THE HERO OF SKY !!!L 🌐❤️🇯🇵
0:36 who saw that v22 Osprey
Actually the Zero is a engineering design marvel, for its day its ability to dogfight was even superior to the Spitfire, the Brits found that out when their Hurricanes were blown out of the sky by Zeros so when the Spitfires showed up guess who got them as well? Turns out the Japanese came up with an aluminum alloy called extra super Duraluminum that was as strong as aluminum but much lighter as well, a fully loaded Zero came in at about 6000 lbs while the Wildcat empty came in at that weight as well, but adding up all the fuel and ammo and pilot made it too slow and heavy in a dogfight. He is right about the wing, there is a slight but noticeable wing curvature from the fuselage all the way to the wingtip and did make it difficult to produce but also gave it insane turning ability and once they were on your tail their dual 20mm cannons ripped you open. Because of its lightness it was also very economical to operate, its range was like over 1,000 miles and the damn thing could fly and fight with 87 octane gas, you could pull up to an Arco today and fill it with 87 octane and the thing would get you there and back, that is unless you got hit anywhere crucial, like pilot or engine or fuel tank, then it lit up real well and burned nicely. So if you played their game you were a goner, but if you just hit them and ran off in a dive chances are you would hit that weak spot and the plane just lit. Going forward, and knowing just how good Mitsubishi was at building that plane I decided to buy a Mitsubishi Mirage and cant get over the great mileage and quality engineering that goes into that car, just like the Zero, its light and maneuverable, but this time comes with 7 airbags, so even in an accident, you'll be just fine. I used to teach science and the Zero was my go to when teaching about acceleration and inertia, the planes design philosophy inspires even to this day!
Underrated comment 😊
one thing to note about the 20mms, is that (at least early on, i dont know about how things changed as the war developed) the pilots didnt really care for them. the difference in velocity between the machine guns and cannons made it so, one: you usually had to prioritize one armament over the other (presumably unless you were in close enough that it didnt matter so much), and two: the velocity of the twenty millimeters were considerably slower than the machine guns and they were also spread apart on the wings versus the nose-mounted machine guns. this made it so zero pilots preferred using their machine guns because they were substantially easier to hit their targets with, which is probably partly why aircraft like the wildcat have their reputation for durability.
"Zeroes were responsible on the infamous attacks on Pearl harbor"
A6M2 Zero: *smug*
Aichi D3A "Val": ...
Nakajima B5N "Kate": are we a joke to you?
Looking at the construction, it’s amazing they built them that well, under pressure.
皇歴2600年、零式艦上戦闘機、デビュー。つまり、白人植民地主義を全てZeroに戻すという運命をZEROは帯びていたようですらある。
Lets talk about the colour..spot on
I'm here because of the Studio Ghibli movie called The Wind Rises, that tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi (堀越 二郎 Horikoshi Jirō?), creator of Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
Just FYI, 'operational' means it is still an active fighter aircraft. Still flying does not = operational. Also, the documentary says the Zero was 'responsible' for the attack on Pearl. The Zero was a fighter aircraft and flew mainly top cover for the bombers. Most of the destruction was wrought by the D3A Val dive-bomber and B5N Kate torpedo bomber, which was also a very stable platform for high-level precision bombing (as demonstrated when an 800kg bomb from one penetrated the upper deck, detonating in the forward magazine, resulting in the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona).
well the 'operational' also means 'usable' in this context, it isn't a wrong usage of the word.
おっちゃん零戦ホントに好きなんやな〜
The cowling certainly looks authentic. Does any one know if it has a real Nakajima Sakae 12?
This plane is worth it's weight in gold.
you have to admit though. Japan had ppl power back home. They could make some quality, hand made planes for sheer number of population that wasnt fighting at the time. They made quality, they just couldnt acquire enough resources to keep it feed. Then of course, we Americans developed planes that could match it and pilots to learn how the enemy works and plan around.
interesting video :)
神風のハチマキをつけも爆装はしないぐらいなら勝利のハチマキを付けたらいいのに
This is amazing, the japanese has made one of the best war planes during ww2
I watch this after watching The wind has risen, what a wonderful movie
Excellent video,.........................and I think an Air Force General described the Zero as a " sports airplane with a 1500hp engine".
A sports airplane it seemed to have been, but the Sakae radial engine was rated at less than 1000hp.....but it was a remarkable piece of areonautical engineering..
Greeting from Australia Les Griffiths.......................................
It used cheap 87 fuel while America used 150! Now if the Japanese had access to that fuels to achieve extra 150mph in speed they be uncatchable
My dream is to have one of the zero plane or f4u corsair or b-17
Is there a longer version of this video. I’d love to see more about it
Someone’s grandpa: AHH THE JAPANESE ARE BACK
The Zero was a great fighter plane, but later the Hellcat outclassed it, and other aircraft as well. the Corsair should also be mentioned, the Mustang , there are others.
I don't know why this plane fascinates me ...
The differrence between American fighters at that time and Zero is similar to the difference between American cars and Japanese cars. Japanese cars are small, light and agile.
Nissan Prince and Subaru, not to mention Mitsubishi all used to be involved with aircraft fighter engineering in WW2.
If i'll be given a chance to fly her i would fly her over pearl. Or in clark airbase and subic bay.
Does it have a Sakae engine? I thought POF in Chino has the only flying Zeke with a Sakae
Hulk Hogan over here representing. Making weebs proud worldwide.
The Japanese Zero fighter plane ruled the sky until it didn't.
i'm getting flashbacks
i can still hear him over the radio...
"YA GOT A HOLE IN YOUR LEFT WING!!!"
The Emperor would be proud
Sadly its design didn't allow any upgrades that were effective
おっさん、鉢巻ワロタ。
好きなんだなあ
? sorry i can't read Japanese
He's saying he laughed at the headband the old man is wearing at 0:30 which says, "kamikaze."
Mr. Ishikawa is no snowflake because he can take a joke.
Are you his interpreter?
Sixian Tan shut up weeb
google translate weaboos
It gives me feel of imperial japan!!!