Once-feared 'Zero' fighter flies again over Japan: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/world/restored-japanese-zero-fighter-plane-flies-over-japan/index.html Also look at the, what I assume are, solar panels on those houses.
I am glad there is now a fully restored, flyable ZERO. There are others in collections but I am not sure any others are flying. It shows how technology can make radically different choices. The ZERO was designed to be extraordinarily light. In the hands of a skilled pilot it was exceptional. But after those first 500 Japanese Naval Aviators died, the replacement pilots who flew it found it a death trap. Too light, too vulnerable, underarmed and unarmored. When the USAAF brought in the P-38, the Marines the Corsair, and the Navy the Hellcat; the ZERO was the wrong design track. But married to the most rigorous pilot training regimen of its day, the ZERO was a remarkable aircraft. Thanks for finding this.
