Only two months later, the Navy issued a specification to Mitsubishi for a NELL replacement. Only one U.S. ship, the destroyer Mannert L. Abele, was ever sunk by an Ohka, and it cost six out of the eight attacking Bettys. This year, the rear fuselage has been stripped . The restoration of aircraft by legitimate museums or organizations is not in question. At the heart of the collection are . Why were tourist attractions taken? None of this mattered during the Sino-Japanese campaign, when Bettys were escorted by the new, long-range A6M2 Zero. From Recovery to Restoration: Bringing World War II's Lost Aircraft Back to Life. It worked for a while, but increasingly inexperienced G4M crews and the chaos of night attacks rendered even these desperate measures ineffective. GIVEN THE LEVEL OF DETAIL WE GO TO IN ENSURING THE RESTORATION IS CORRECT FROM AN ENGINEERING POINT AND AUTHENTICITY POINT OF VIEW IT IS NOT SUPRISING THAT START UPS APPEAR SLOW. removed from Girua Airport You have completed projects related to aircraft, but none with PNG aircraft yet. WHEN I ACQUIRED [from Girua Airport, [P-47D 41-27608] IN 1998 THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAD ASKED THE LANDOWNERS TO REMOVE TO AIRCRAFT FROM THE AIRPORT DUE TO IT BEING IN THE WAY FOR A PROPOSED TERMINAL EXTENSION. AS REGARDS TOURISM AND IMPACT ON HISTORY, THATS AN ISSUE FOR GOVERNMENTS TO DECIDE. Only after we removed the aircraft did those, who had done nothing, complain about our act of preservation. I WOULD REFER YOUR READERS TO Classic Wings Magazine WHICH HAS JUST DONE A EXCELLENT COVERAGE ON THE TRAILS AND TRIBULATIONS OF RESTORING A P-47. Possibly, assigned to the 761 Kktai (761 Air Group). The Mitsubishis were large, ponderous targets and needed to follow stable courses during torpedo runs. Features : Realistically reproduced twin engine prop plane built with highly detailed, injection molded gray plastic parts. It was recovered from New Guinea in 1991 by warbird salvager Bruce Fenstermaker, in a joint venture with the Santa Monica Museum of Flying. If these wrecks are indeed worthless, why are they being salvaged? Within 20 minutes, Hellcats had shot down all 18 bombers. Six escorting Zeros flew guard but in a matter of seconds, the Air Corps pilots shrugged off the escorting fighters and sent both BETTYs crashing down in flames. The Type 91 had been designed specifically for the Hawaii attack and Pearl Harbors shallow water, though there it was carried by single-engine, carrier-launched Nakajima B5N2 Kates. The RAAF could have landed a Hercules on the airstrip where they sat and flown them out. It carried a huge explosive charge, and bore large wooden tailfins that stabilized it in flight and broke away when the torpedo entered the water. THE RESTORATIONS ARE BEING CONDUCTED ON A FREE OF CHARGE BASIS WITH COMPLETION DATES. The G4M had . The only wreck known to be salvaged by USAF Museum is a O-38F. THERE ARE STILL 800 WRECKS OUT THERE IN PNG ALONE AND A LOT OF THE GOOD ONES HAVE BEEN LEFT DUE TO TOURISM OR MIA ISSUES. As the HARS army massed for the five year recovery plan one felt a personnel sense of achievement in having participated in the setting up of and running an organization that would lead to great works such as the Connies recovery to Australia. What projects are you involved and accountable with the PNG Museum? CLARIFICATION Our Prime Minister John Howard has also honored the HARS recently with a personal visit and a $250,000 grant towards our new multimillion dollar facility in Albion Park. Though the Betty was initially laid out by engineer Joji Hattori, the lead designer was Kiro Honjo, a good friend of Zero fighter designer Jiro Horikoshi. The U. S. Army Air Corps conducted a similar experiment using a modified Boeing B-17 bomber designated the B-40 but this idea too failed to survive operational testing and was soon abandoned. The tail section may have been in bad shape and all the glazing and weaponry was missing. Is there anything left in PNG still worth salvaging? With sale prices of restored warbirds so high, and even projects expensive, what is the 'value' of wrecked aircraft? How relics are owned by the state, but also how local compensation and tourism supersede removal, CLARIFICATION The DC-4E design proved to be so bad that the company started over again, producing the successful DC-4 airliner. SIMPLY THE PROPOSED RESTORERS LOVE OF HISTORY AND HIS DESIRE TO SEE IT SAVED salvager, restorer? Rather, they are lacking the 'luxuries of life, CLARIFICATION Mitsubishi G4M - Bombers land-based Type 1, G4M - Japanese torpedo bomber medium of naval aviation during the Second World War. However, its agile escort flipped over and disappeared off Mooney's scope. Limited the livery to Japan (JPN) to prevent it from hiding the default livery. The Aboriginal elders at Kalambaru were so impressed with our passion and our sense of history that they gave us the aircraft. I LOVE THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE. The 'Betty', as the Mitsubishi bomber was called in the Allied code, proved itself an excellent combat aircraft on all fronts. guns in the nose, atop the mid-fuselage behind the cockpit, and on both sides of the fuselage behind the wing. Few would know it by its official designation, the Navy Type 1 Attack Bomber. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. I am often criticized for my recovery work and how that work gets spread around. Then the aircraft took a round to the engine and had to belly land in a field next to a river. C-121C Serial 54-0157 was 'relegation to storage at Davis Monthan Air Base'. The final version of the Betty, the G4M4, had an entirely new laminar-flow wing with integrally self-sealing fuel tanks. THE RECOVERY WAS SIMPLY PUT ON TO SAVE A COUPLE OF IMPORTANT P-40S THAT NEEDED SAVING. Greinert was responsible for having its salvage permit re-issued, a permit that was deemed illegal by the PAC.]. You have completed projects related to aircraft, but none with PNG aircraft yet. CLARIFICATION They did nothing. Japan's newest and most advanced bomber made the trip, disassembled and stacked on five ox-drawn farm carts, over unpaved roads! IAN WHITNEY WAS A MEMBER OF THE RECOVERY TEAM AND EVENTUALLY RECIEVED THE WORST AIRFRAME OF THE TWO SALVAGED. If that doesn't work then go into gmod and redownload the mod. Japanese Navy pilots called it "" Hamaki (Cigar), due to its cylindrical shape. I THINK THAT ANY INTELLIGENT THINKING PERSON WOULD SEE THE LOGIC OF A EVEN WELL BALANCED APPROACH WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO DATE. SO YES IT IS PRICELESS BUT AS FAR AS ITS ALLEDGED HIGH VALUE I WOULDNT KNOW. Terms & Conditions; Privacy Policy Betty La Bomba is a Damage Champion in Paladins, added on March 23rd, 2022. Speak about your Vanuatu recovery of P-40Fs Hand held and operating through a 20-degree arc, it required a pursuing fighter to voluntarily position itself within the cannons tiny field of fire, though this limitation was removed in later versions of the Betty. . The NASM G4M Model 34 BETTY is not complete but it is the best-preserved example of this famous aircraft in the world. The Allies called it the BETTY but the men that flew the airplane nicknamed it the 'Hamaki,' Japanese for cigar, a reference to the airplane's rotund, cigar-shaped fuselage. The plane is located in "Gredwitch's Stuff". You have salvaged a variety of aircraft from PNG that were displayed at airports and their museum. Both the YB-40 and the G6M1 were failures because they were too heavy to keep up with companion bombers that had dropped their ordnance. $34.95. To meet the requirements, a Mitsubishi design team led by Kiro Honjo crafted an airplane called the G4M with fuel tanks in the wings that were not resistant to explosion when punctured during combat. IN REFLECTION, I THINK THAT ITS BEST TO CONSIDER SALVAGE, IN ORDER TO SAVE THE AEROPLANE FROM THE ENTHUSIASTS. BRASSTOWN, NC- The tenth edition of the Schaeffer's Oil Spring Nationals Series presented by Coltman Farms Racing and fueled by Sunoco is scheduled to kick off in a big way over the March 3-4 weekend They had to fabricate the missing air scoops, install an engine, rebuild the cockpit . Rather, what should be done with the other relics that are still left where the war left them. Leaving aviation objects outside to rot and be scrapped is not an option. I SUSPECT THERE IS MORE MYTH AND SPECULATION ABOUT THE ALLEDGED VALUE OF THESE WRECKS. The B-25, 45-8835, switched hands a couple of times in Canada including, Aurora Aviation Ltd, G&M Aircraft Ltd and eventually ended up back in the United States at Aero Trader in Chino, CA in 1993. MUSEUM OR INDIVIDUAL. To ensure the long term survival of an object for the benefit of future generations is one of the greatest privileges a person can have in life. One specially detailed Betty crew was even assigned to seize a Superfortress and fly it back to Japan. [in late April, early May 2006 B-17E 41-2446 aka 'Swamp Ghost' was salvaged. displays a restored SBD-3 Dauntless dive bomber recovered by the US Navy from underwater in Lake Michigan where it had lain since 1944. Nobody is sure how many torpedoes hit the two British battlewagons, but three days after Pearl Harbor, wave after wave of Nells and Bettys achieved at least nine Type 91 hits and possibly as many as 21. Unknown to the crew of the Abele, the G4Ms carried the new single-seat, piloted flying bombs in their open bomb bays. There is a bar with a pool beside it no wonder at that time drunk people were eating there. The plane was equipped with a top turret, waist guns and in later models a nose gun that was operated by the bombardier. CLARIFICATION Four days later, two BETTY bombers landed at Ie Shima Island. EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT THEM, NOBODY WAS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT, IT WAS GREAT TO SAVE THEM AND SEE THEM GO TO GOOD HOMES. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. CLARIFICATION For me it is two things. In 1979 along with six other enthusiasts in a garage in suburban Sydney, we formed the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS). Lancaster bomber project still four years away from completion. WHAT DO I GET OUT OF IT. Navy crews suffered 4,300 fatalities and 5,400 casualties, or seven percent of all crew casualties incurred during the entire Pacific war. WE FORWARD PLAN UP TO FIVE YEARS IN ADVANCE. And issues like if the wreck is an MIA Site YOU NEED TO TALK TO THE MUSEUM AND OR '75 SQUADRON'. I KNOW OF NO OTHER EXPERTS GIVING EXPERT OPINION. Mitsubishi G4M-3 series Betty bomber. Since the model is optimized for 1/900th scale, it is not ideal to print larger versions due to a lack of detail. Betty Bomber, Truk Lagoon, Micronesia. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. The website wreckchasing.com furthers the argument succinctly. Betty crews carried no parachutes, since bailing out wasnt an option. Of a total of 273 F-82s produced, 20 were F-82Bs. The aircraft was probably based at Oppama Air Field near Yokosuka, Japan, but no record of the unit or service history is known. Assigned to an unknown Kktai (Air Group). CLARIFICATION I PREFER TO HAVE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL IN THE REBUILD AS POSSIBLE AND I GO TO EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS TO SEE THAT IS ACHIEVED. Why do you believe this work is important? AS FOR MIA SITES I DONT GO NEAR THEM UNLESS THEY HAVE BEEN CLEARED BY THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. AND THE ACTIVITIES ARE WELL RECORDED IN PUBLICATIONS AND ALIKE OVER TIME, CREDIBLE MEDIA OUTLETS SUCH AS Classic Wings Magazine PROVIDE EXCELLENT COVERAGE. Every one knew they were there and no one did anything about it. WETHER THE WRECK COMES OUT OR NOT IS A GOVERNMENT DETERMINATION. Amid it all came one of the Bettys most notorious flights: the mission to carry Admiral Yamamoto on an inspection tour of the Solomon Islands in April 1943. When John and Patti handed us their father's briefcase on the grass of Grimes Field, we knew we had something special that day. I WAS INVITED TO GO ALONG AT THE TIME TO ASSIST WITH THE RECOVERY OF Ki-43 [5465]. He has an aircraft recovery permit I have to live with it but I dont have to cooperate. They were painted in special 'surrender markings,' white overall with green crosses replacing the Japanese Hinomaru or red "meatball" national insignia. Trucking to Sydney. But none of this mattered, because the Betty had a fatal flaw, and Kiro Honjo knew it. It was the primary dive bomber in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and participated in almost all actions, including Pearl Harbor. . MUCH OF THE STUFF PRINTED IN MAGAZINES, WARBIRD OWNERS LISTS ETC ARE CREATED BY ENTHUSIASTS WHO ARE SCRAMBLING FOR MATERIAL AND WHAT THEY DONT KNOW THEY MAKE UP AND WHAT THEY DO KNOW THEY GENERALLY GET WRONG. I ONLY RECOVER FOR MY OWN RESTORATION WORK AND PASS ON SURPLUS MATERIAL. Mention some of your work in PNG 1990 to present credit to gredwitch for making the model & plane. The Bettys wet wings were its tanks, with fuel cells neatly defined by the main spar and a secondary spar forward of it, the ends sealed by solid wing ribs. What do you consider yourself: In the early days of the Second World War Japan had no independent Air Force, so the Navy pushed the whole project through and got mass production started in the early 1940's. By all accounts she was a good aeroplane, with a long range which revolutionized air operations by the Japanese in the Pacific. Therefore, this was a bomber similar to the ones used by the US to penetrate deep inside German lines. TO NOT PRESERVE HISTORY IS TO FORGET THE LESSONS OF THE PAST. THERE ARE SOME STRATEGIC RELICS SUCH AS [Ki-49 Hellen 3220] AT ALEXISHAFEN THAT SHOULD REMAIN WHERE THEY ARE. The rocket planes were heavymore than 4,700 poundsso the overloaded Bettys carrying them were particularly vulnerable to fighter interception. The importance of this piece as an artifact from the Commonwealth Air Training Scheme did not go unnoticed and eventually the Australian War Memorial approached me with a view to acquiring it. So the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service laid down the parameters of what would become the Betty by basically saying, Build a better Nell. SITTING IN A KUNAI PATCH FOR SIXTY YEARS IS NOT GOING TO PUT FOOD IN THE MOUTHS OF THEIR CHILDREN OR GET THEM THE CRITICAL MEDICINES THEY NEED. Aug 21, 2018 - Explore Frank Castrillo's board "Mitsubishi G4M/G6M.Betty bomber", followed by 271 people on Pinterest. The G4M series was begun late in 1937 at the request of the Japanese Navy, which wanted a land-based bomber that was even better . Their fate is unknown, though the cockpit and nose of one, plus the tailcone, ended up in storage at the National Air and Space Museum. ITS THEN VERY MUCH ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. It is estimated that by the end of the war, 5,000 pilots had died making Tokko attacks and the damage they wrought was severe. The white Bettys flew from Japan to Ie Shima, a small Okinawan island, where the Japanese were transferred to a C-54 and carried on to Manila to meet with Douglas MacArthur and his staff. Many one-of-a-kind aircraft on display in museums owe their existence to wreck chasers. What projects are you involved and accountable with the PNG Museum? The official Japanese surrender delegation had boarded these two BETTYs in Kyushu. from Papua SURPLUS MATERIAL IS DONATED. Our B-25 is painted in honor of Capt. export or removal, CLARIFICATION Yamamotos idea, however, was not to build more shipsyou could buy a thousand airplanes for the cost of a warship, he once saidbut to build a land-based bomber with huge range and great speed that could quickly fly far out to sea and fight naval battles, either defending the fleets capital ships or attacking the enemy. In the confusion, the Japanese troops were to destroy as many B-29s as possible and then head into the jungles to continue fighting as guerrillas. I HAVE BEEN CREDITED ERRONOUSLY FOR DOING A LOT OF THINGS I DIDNT DO. THERE IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF WORK GOING ON IN ANY RESTORATION INVOLVING A HUGE CREW OF PEOPLE. HASNT BEEN DONE BEFORE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. The Allies called it the BETTY but to the men that flew the airplane, it was popularly, but unofficially, the 'Hamaki,' Japanese for cigar, in honor of the airplane's rotund, cigar-shaped fuselage. The distance was well withing the range of U. S. Navy combat air patrols. PacificWrecks covers Co-piloted by Victor Tatelman, it escorted two Betty bombers carrying the Japanese peace envoys to Ie Shima on August 19, 1945, and again on the return mission from the conference in Manila with General MacArthurs staff. OVER THE YEARS I HAVE WORKED WITH A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE. ITS TRUE VALUE IS IN THE HISTORY AND THE STORY IT WILL TELL FUTURE GENERATIONS. On October 23, 1939, the Japanese G4M, named the "Betty" bomber by the Allies, made its maiden flight. 09 November: Dick's Lindberg XB-70 Restoration 09 November: Monogram Air Power Set YouTube Video! Despite a distinct military bent, my work over the last 30 years in vintage aviation has been about preserving aviation objects for future generations. This model is designed and tested at 1/900th scale, but up-scaling and down-scaling are possible. Remains of German WWII Junkers Ju 88 bomber recovered from Thames Estuary. I SPEND A LOT OF MY OWN MONEY ON PRESERVING HISTORY. HOW OTHERS SEE IT IS THEIR BUSINESS. THIS I CONSIDER ALARMING AND A THREAT TO HERITAGE AND TOURISM. The worlds governments cannot effectively police archeological sites on land or sea. VINTAGE 1967 LINDBERG MITSUBISHI G4M3 BETTY BOMBER MODEL KIT 1:72 SCALE.576-200. He omitted armor plate. The crash caused her to be thrown out of her vehicle, and as well as suffering from severe burns, Betty had a broken pelvis . I still actively serve as the Societys Secretary and head of the Sheet metal /Restoration division. The BETTY was so prone to ignite that the Allies nicknamed it the 'flying lighter.'. Subscribe here! Mention the Australian Beaufighters recovered. Rather than pull all-nighters, he spent a lot of time in Cambridge playing poker. He said National's Three Waters policy is a thin disguise for the dog whistle on co-governance. It featured a crew of two (pilot, gunner) and . Greinert's first salvage was 1989. Since 2000, Pacific Wrecks has emailed Greinert questions and clarification related to all wrecks he is involved with. There was no self-sealing mechanism, which would have required a 1-inch-thick soft rubber layer weighing about 660 pounds, either inside or outside the fuel tanks, substantially reducing the tanks capacity. 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