War Prize #3 by bmac62
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Description
Another Axis aircraft brought to the USA at the end of WWII for technical study and evaluation.
By 1945, this Kawanishi N1K2-Ja was the most advanced fighter available to the Japanese. It was designed to counter the high flying B-29 bombers.
It was also called the Shiden Kai (Japanese for "Violet Lightning-Improved") and was called the "George" by the Allies.
This aircraft is one of only three surviving restored examples in the world.
I have left an extremely faint copy of the Museum background to provide minimal context for this image. Zooming helps.
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Comments (35)
Great shot P
excellent lighting in this shot, just spot on, Bill!
your extracting of images & your muting of backgrounds in other images gets more subtle & articulate with each piece. This also struck me as soon as I saw it, and I thought it was sleek, mysterious & beautiful. It is lit like a portrait (as I said of another of your shots) and it stands in great dignity, looking upwards as if it's posing for you. The play of green against the yellow and then against the red and gold show your sense of composition not only of form but of color. And the light on the wing & propeller is quite fine. A beautiful portrait, fine use of dark space (and I can see the background as quiet ghosts), and a very noble portrait, even of a plane that brought much misery to several peoples & countries. Another transformation of an object of terror into an object of beauty: You've done it again.
A fine shot and postwork, Bill. The "George" as well as other late model Japanese fighters were very competitive with USN and USAAF fighters. Like the German Luftwaffe, the Japanese lacked the experienced and well trained pilots to make them as effective as our guys.
This is another fine job you've done to bring out the plane... The ONE (and only one!) fault that Dayton had was it treated 'non US Aircraft' poorly and pushed them in corners or they were poorly lit! But to me (and most true aviation fans a rare plane like the above one is much more interesting than yet another P-51! Now you can ALL hate me.... but its true! Brilliant, Bill.... Rob