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This is a one way ticket for the pilot of this bomb. Known by the allies as 'Baka', Japanese for stupid, and by the Japanese as the 'Ohka', Cherry Blossom. It was a rocket propelled glider bomb. [link]Related content
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"One way trip!"
Unfortunately, this formed as the inspiration for the nutjobs who rammed two 747s into the WTC >_>
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Maybe, but they were ramming aircraft into other aircraft in WWI.
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Looks like suicide bombing existed a lot longer than I thought, though the fools are overdoing it now >_>
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The Japanese really have special appreciation for death. No one in another country would have the originality to create this kind of weapon.
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The Germans also had a similar aircraft. [link]
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You aught to see it in person!
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wow! you have a pic of one!! 
did you know they actually have this as one of the planes in the game for the xbox "Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of Ww2"? its really cool
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I do not play too many video games. I work two jobs (firefighting and aircraft mechanic) that do not leave too much time for that. I have been fortunate to have worked on and sometimes flown some very interesting aircraft. Some are on my site on DA. Glad you liked the picture. It was one of two that were at 2007's Gathering of Mustangs and Legends in Columbus, Ohio. There were about 80 P-51's. twp P-38's and many more great aircraft there.
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how i would have loved that. I was once in Civil Air Patrol and that was fun, but had to quit because i was too busy. 
ive had some pretty neat opportunities. I knew a guy at the airport that could have gotten me in to see Senior Bush at the airport, but i was on vacation. i also almost had the chance to fly in a Texan dive bomber, ride in a hewey, a B-17 and ride in a P51 Mustang, but financial reasons i couldn't
Ive also gotten to get inside a Chinook when a guy flew it to our school and i got to check out an Apache when another student flew it to homecoming. I get to go to the Lexington this spring and stay on the ship for two days. but thats about as far as ive gotten so far.
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I saw this on the history channel, I wouldn't want to pilot that thing!
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Well, this one is a trainer. You would/should be able to walk away from a flight in this particular one.
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This one has a landing skid. Apparently this is the trainer model.
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still not a training-course i,d care to take......!
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they just had a totally different mindset from us gaijin.......
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Oddly enough, the Germans had an equivalent for this one - the Fiesler Fi 103 Reichenburg IV, a manned version of the V-1 flying bomb. But even more oddly, it was never intended as a pure 'suicide' weapon - instead the pilot was supposed to point it at the target and bail out (even though bailing out proved to be almost impossible).
Eventually, though, it was never used in action - despite the thousands of untrained soldiers and ill-trained pilots being sent into battle, the idea of pure 'suicide' missions seemed a bit too grotesque even for the Nazi leadership - and most Fi 103R-IVs were converted back into unmanned V-1s...
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I did know about the German one. The Germans and Japanese traded many interesting war planes.
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Yeah, there were quite some interesting concepts among them. Good thing, though, that most of them either never made it into action, or in far too little numbers to have any influence whatsoever...
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Some of them even made it as updated aircraft of the USA and USSR!
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Yeah, I know. There's a story about the Focke Wulf Ta 183 making it as the MiG 15; one I do know for certain is the Messerschmitt P.1101 which was developed into the Bell X-5 (which paved the way for the F-111 & F-14, no less...)
One aspect that seems to be forgotten, or at least little known about German aviation, though, are the number of types that served on in some forms or others after the war - the license-built Avia S-92s (Me 262s) and S-99/199s (Bf 109G with DB or Jumo engine), and French NC-900s (Fw 190s) and Ju 88s come to mind...
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Seems strange that the fledgling Israeli Air Force had as one of its' first line fighters, the Bf109!
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I guess it's one of history's great ironies - even more so because those "Messerschmitts" (or Avias) were fighting alongside Spitfires, and fighting against types as the Spitfire, Macchi 205 and Fiat 55.
But, well, there were a lot of aircraft which seemed slightly 'out of place' - what about the Japanese and their L2D 'Tabby' (licence-built Dakota), or the South Africans with their Junkers Ju 52s and Ju 86s...?
The strangest kind of airfleet ever assembled, though, must be the French during the Indochina (Vietnam) wars of the early '50s - the types they used over there included just about everything, ranging from the Spitfire, Bell P-63s, PB4Y-2 Privateers, C-119 Boxcars and B-26 Invaders, over Hellcats, Bearcats and Helldivers, right up to ex-German Ju 52s and Morane-Saulnier 500s (Fi 156s), and ex-Japanese L2Ds and Ki-43 Oscars...
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Baka indeed. Not something I'd want to be flying.
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Just down the road in Dayton. We have Roscoe Turners Wedell Williams here in Cleveland.
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Actually a rocket propelled piloted bomb. Please see my edited text. Thanks for the comment!
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No I'm not debating you, I'm sure its an ohka, but its the trainer version of the ohka, hence the orange paint and the small landing skid under the nose, which led me to believe that it is the single seat trainer model of the ohka, I believe its on wikipedia
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I think you are right about that. I could not find anything about a type 43.
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acctually the type 43 is mentioned in your link near the bottom as a Jet propelled version no mention of a trainer though
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"Missed it by that much!"
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I may be off in my designation. Oh well, its still a rare piece of history regardless.
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[link] says it is mentioned in my link to info. Touche!
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