Old Film Footage on You Tube: "OCCUPIED JAPAN HOME MOVIES YOKOTA AIR FORCE BASE"

Kim, that in my opinion would have to be a Japanese Eureka kit. It appears to have some sparkers in the cowlings. I suppose it could also be a Kyosho kit. They were very large, they also made a B-36. I caught a glimpse of a Dynajet behind it. I do recall a American Modeller showing a B-29 flying. I will check my mags as well. Ken

Facinating footage Kim. Thanks for posting that.
Bob

Thanks, I enjoyed that

Kim,

Excellent video of early post war antics. Funny though as I have have flown through Yokota and it looks much different.

The B-29 was tail heavy. Glad they got those sparkies going though.

Ron

Some of those planes look so underpowered. Who decided that anti-clockwise was the way to go? Looks like a pretty even mix of both directions in those days.

That's such a cool video, how did they start four engines in that huge B-29 back then??  Must have taken an hour to get them all going...

As I was watching that video, a couple beach scenes looked familiar, a couple years ago I went back to Guam and happen to take an exact photo of at least the scene at 7:50 in the video, on Anderson Air Force Base (13°37'36.16" N 144°53'40.57" E):



You can check it out on Google Earth, a look behind is the double-peaked mountain range in the video.

I followed the company that uploaded that film and they sell B-17 pilot manuals, wouldn't that be interesting to read http://periscopefilm.com/b-17-bomber-manual/