Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai

Nippon steel?

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Me, my buddies, and Larry "Pixy" "Solo Wing" Foulke.

There's nothing wrong with Ancap.

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Are the animators of this show getting paid with Burger King cupons?

STOP TALKING ABOUT PANCAKES FOR FUCK SAKE

/k/, /pol/, /ck/

Hayabusa
youtube.com/watch?v=1JYo-Un6bSk

Hayabusa!
youtube.com/watch?v=SpxCSul9szk

If we're going by "this is Crimson Skies" theory the central government that succeeds in forming is never a good one, rife with corruption and abuse of power

If we're to believe her counter arguments, she prefers a loose confederation of city states that work and trade together, which would last for about as long as it would take someone to assassinate the people responsible for ensuring no city becomes any more powerful than the others

She recognizes it of course, that's what the "fool to join, idiot to ignore" line is about. I really wish we had worldbuilding that could tell us how realistic it would be to avoid centralizing

I'm actually enjoying the corniness of this anime, they're all unchanging one-note characters who end each episode by saying a line in turn according to their personality, but the dogfights are cool

We could be colonizing the moon right now

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So, something like Hellenistic Greece? I could be terribly wrong about that. Maybe pre-Alexander Bactria might be a better example: a bunch of Greeks exiled to a far-flung badlands between India and the edge of the Persian empire.

>Ancap
But she mercs people for her big corporate masters. She isn't a self employed killer.

Blame international bankers.

Pancake nudes sell

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>Julia's logo is ancapball

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What does forming a long-term agreement with an employer have to do with government?

that's the belkaball

>ancap
What are you faggots, six?

Pancakeface

you are what you eat

>fighting against
But they don't really care about which politician come out as the winner, they only care about their job stability as courier and air security force.

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FOR PANCAKES

It's amazing how Kylie hasn't been raped, as a child, considering how she easily goes along with strangers in the middle on nowhere.

Hellenistic Greece makes a nice example with the similar geographic boundaries. Though it also comes with a lot of connotations of alliances between different leagues of towns... would be a great analogy to extend into a sequel but it wouldn't really work with the current series.

That's Ol' Saburo Sakai for you.

More like Saburo Isekai'd

Okay, guys. What the fuck is this?

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>Want to craft a Hayabusa
>do the 3 Isono 1 hard missions and the 3 Rahama 2 hards for parts
>0 drops

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YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Season 2 will have dogfights in space.

Probably wouldn't work at all since Greece never manufactured its own aircraft.

Okay, you win the thread.

> Kylie is spinning out of control towards a cliff wall with no possible way to crash non-fatally let alone recover
> Next scene with her is this

What did they mean by this?

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¡¿ESTAMOS NOSOTROS LOS PRIMEROS AQUÍ?!

Looks like the moon.

Shonen-grade plot armor.

If it was shounen grade she would have won the fight.

>armor
>Ki-43

Choose one.

But she hadn't gone through the training arc yet.

She was possessed by the spirit of her loli self.

She fell through a plothole.

What is wrong with KYRIE?

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Nothing.

Who exactly is snek?

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She's not as good at flying as snakeheart.

Sneaky.

Creo que no pero bienvenido

> Time stop as Kylie remembers what her sensei told her long ago
> OP starts playing
> Flash back forward to her miraculously pulling out of the spin

When the first flashback started I thought they might pull something like this, guess they just decided on the Ayyyyy instead

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You don't fly a plane, they fly on their own. All the pilot needs to do is follow it's lead.

No, actually it's aluminum.

>just enjoying a nice, relaxing flight when a madwoman starts pursuing you
Snek did nothing wrong

ngl I would be happy to have KYLIE pursuing me

I'm a big fan of Kylie's collar bones.

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Pretty sure it's about the angle of attack

> Planes can fly upside down

O-okay, then it's because of the pressure differential created by the different lengths of the air paths whe-

> Airfoil designs symmetric about the direction of travel can work

Well, Yea Forumsnons?

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Learn aerodynamics.

God dammit forgot the reply link, this "internet" thing just isn't my speed today. Carry on...

I'll try just for you, user

It was her chance to finally see a fresh corpse, wouldn't you be excited?

She's a necrophile?

tell me the aerodynamics of a pancake

Correct

Yeah, her own

With or without syrup?

Well the camera was spinning out of control. Kylie looked like she had it.

Or maybe she really did die but came back to life like Starbuck from the BSG reboot

Quite excellent, really.

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Until she starts shooting.

No wonder most of them missed.

He Who Spoke ill of Pancakes

Definitely Ol' Sab

>Hellenistic Greece makes a nice example with the similar geographic boundaries.
Wait, do we have a map for the show's world?

Not yet.

And for some reason the board failed to register the spoiler tags.

That feels too obvious.

digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc64254/
More pancake aero than you could get through in a week. Have fun.

He'd be long dead by then, unless they come up with some bullshit like time moving faster in their world compared to Ol' Sab's world.

Typical pancakefag. Pancakes make you psychotic.

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It's a one-cour show, who else could they introduce at this point that would turn out to be the mystery pilot?

Not out of the question

Alternate solution is that we never see their face and it's just a random recurring enemy that Kylie one day shoots down

> CAPTCHA insists a camper van is a "bus"

Sorry hellfire missile auto-targeting systems

Flying a bomber is so comfy, at least until enemy fighters caught up to you.

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Well, they have a whole cast of mobage designs to draw from.

No roads needed in the sky.

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That's what all the turrets are for.

why does he have 2 eyes then?

>saburo was the fuckign shit. awesome dude

plot probability says Ol'Sab turned darkside
plot possibility says it is his other student
plot possibility 2 says it's the guy who tried to hire him.
plot rando says it's Kylie's evil twin/ ex-BF/guy who stole Sab's plane

Yo, buddy. Still alive?

They just didn't show it on screen, those flying lessons aren't free. There's loli rape on Ol Sab's bookshelf after all.

>There's loli rape on Ol Sab's bookshelf after all.

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Kylie's future husband.

>carrying loads of money with me
>lol this nigger that robbed me last time
>I will get him back this time
Sometimes I just want to fucking strangle Kylie.

Les Infortunes de la Vertu by de Sade(as in Sadism)
About a pure young girl who keeps ending up in rape dungeons.

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>regulations
>taxations
>state-owned enterprises
>centrally planned economy
>roads

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So when is she gonna hate arep him?

I don't really get all the politics but I am assuming the woman is fighting for /our/ freedoms.

Oh shit

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So this is actually isekai?
Some Japanese crossed into this world and brought airplanes with them. Somehow they went back and the portal closed, old dude for some reason stayed behind.

If I hear anyone talking shit about pancakes again I'm gonna give you a beat down.

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She needs to learn to stop taking it so personal if she wants to survive.

It's more like traditional Isekai than modern Isekai with reincarnation.

So do the tank blueprints signify anything?

So Kyrie will be struck by a bolt of lightning and die?

Guppie Ref

So will KIRIE turn out to be a psychopath as well?

Holy shit.
I wonder if those books were chosen for a particular reason, or if it's just some random collection?

nipples?

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Mechokku!

Someone translated the book titles in a previous thread, most of the Jap books are technical manuals, the Chinese ones are philosophy books.

What the actual fuck

No randomness ends with some Marquis de Sade books

updated

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Needs her tongue sticking out.

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there was really no need to edit it with a different screenshot, on this one the only question left to ask is if this is a right or wrong hole .jpg

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now that I rewtched the first ep, I found out that they mentioned the hole in the sky since the very beginning

Wait what. Where?

pubes!

in the middle of the ep, just rewatched it user, btw, there were other hints in the 3rd or 2nd ep iirc

Post the screenshots, dammit!

>The unfortunate situations include: the time when she seeks refuge and confession in a monastery, but is forced to become a sex slave to the monks, who subject her to countless orgies, rapes and similar rigours
Who would have thought that all it took to produce a literary classic was write a poorly disguised doujin plot.

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>Frenchie is the inventor of the doujin hentai and bad fapfics

>rich girl with twisted fetishes
>literal autist
>pancake psycho
>literal child
>sluttie drunkard
>girl who goes berserk thinking about magician's cock
Is this the most dysfunctional team in anime history?

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The moonrace.

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People who appreciate cute girls and WW2 warbirds.

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Probably a comet struck earth.

It's not like the current state is stateless, just smaller city-states. What seems to be happening is someone is creating a problem (massive pirate force) to force a solution (centralized mega-state).

You sound like a man who has never asked marketing what it would cost to carve the company logo into the surface of the moon.

Is there a wiki or guide for the game?

>belka really was behind this

...

When was this plane appeared? I checked the ep2 which is the only episode with Ki-61, but I didn't see one with this paint scheme.

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What gender is the tail insignia?

I want to butt-bully KYLIE and CHIKA.

They were on Areshima airfield.

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How did I miss that? Thanks.

>It's a one-cour show, who else could they introduce at this point that would turn out to be the mystery pilot?
You're assuming they'll even bother revealing it.

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Well, they get along well enough. They can bond over their respective psychoses.

*wife

>Sorry hellfire missile auto-targeting systems
I thought Google is collecting the data for its plans to grab control over the global road transport infrastructure.

Turrets aren't very effective. You can't align them with the course of the fighters, and the time windows that allow hits are very small. I don't know of any turret gunner aces in WW2.

Sending bombers without fighter escort led to disaster in many cases.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Heligoland_Bight_(1939)

I think I like Emma...

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Even her pubes?

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heh

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Do some idiots really think that real blondes have black pubes?

>pubes aren't blond too

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I mean, he kinda looked already pretty old and sick or dying back then, and that was about 10 years ago.

Are you 15? He looked like a relatively fit 50 yo. Can easily do another 20 to 30 years.

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Its a giant wasteland, more rocks and mountains in the northern half and most of rest just deserts. But it was just wall picture of general shape. We dont know where is what city or other important marks.

He looks way past 60. True, he may still be alive, but he'd be in no shape to handle a plane like an ace.

Are you 12? When someone is drawn like that in anime its like 80+ mark.

Are you expecting a Sora no Woto swerve?

Ijitsu map?

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Damn, I just realized that the borders of the map are just some "terra incognita" clouds, kinda surprising, exploration should be easy with planes and zeppelins. Is their planet even round?

Can any airshipfags identify what these retractable panels are for?
There’s an additional one further forward and they appear to be mirrored on the starboard side. The only time I saw them open was during the battle in ep1, but couldn’t get a good look at what was inside. There was no AA fire coming from them, so I doubt they contain more defensive turrets.

Probably.

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>twisted fetishes
Tell me more about those.

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There is nothing twisted about piss play.

Looks to me like they house AA guns that were left unmanned for some reason.

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Thanks, that’s a much better shot.
Sure seems heavily armed for something that isn’t a dedicated warship. (isn’t the “-maru” designation just for merchant ships?) Then again, every airship we’ve seen so far appears to be of the exact same class, so that much firepower might be considered essential in Ancapistan.

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>he thinks its Ancap

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Perhaps the artist is implying she’s actually a Yufangese in disguise?

Me.

What's your favorite WWII plane? I'm new to planes, but I kinda like the Bf 109E.

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>old dude is from another world
>shown from point of view of normal people who born in this world
Isn't this unironically actual native isekai?

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Curtis P-40 and Hawker Typhoon

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I think thats their last reamins of "sea". Or if it could be like corner decoration on maps, not entirely unknown regions.

Additional to its superior airspeed it had unguided missiles to fight bombers with. "Flying Fortress" a shit. American bombers were helpless against the German fighter jet.

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The magnificently uglysexy beast known as the P-61 Black Widow.

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>uglysexy
It is beautiful.

Post yfw the final episode zooms out (like GuP's ep1) and it reveals that they are in a desert smack middle of current day Yuktobania

>keeping de Sade and nursery rhymes on the same shelf

Reina does NOT go berserk thinking about magician cock. Their relationship is strictly platonic and debt related.

>Reina

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Nobody believes this

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Stop being so delusional. There's been no reason given to suggest Reona likes that man in that way.

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Calm down buddy, it was just a bad joke. How about a magic trick?

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I hope this clown gets shot down.

Keep crying JULIA

You got good chances to see it, Japanese like the goofy villain trope. In the Phoenix Wright series, almost all the "last bosses" behave in a goofy or falsely friendly manner at first for instance.
Julia, oppositely, has the "can't-help-making-enemies" trait of people who end up helping the protagonis(s).

I don't remember Karma, Dahlia or Kristoph acting goofy.

North Belka

Based and grunderpilled

I don't know if anyone else has done this yet or whether the information is already available somewhere, but I was curious about the size of the Hagoromo, so I made a rough calculation.

A Zero has an overall length of about 9 metres and we can see here that it's about 20 pixels long, so one pixel is approximately 0.45cm.
The Hagoromo is about 780 pixels long and about 147 pixels tall, so it's approximately 351 metres long and 66 metres tall (Assuming the scale shown here is correct).
This makes it around 100 metres longer, and 20 metres taller than the Hindenburg class airship.

Things a beast.

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You wanna know my secret?
I'm always angry.

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I want her to beat me up.

so is this gonna end with them buying a b-29 and dropping a McNuke on someone?

>Crimson Skies
I wonder if it's possible to play this on a modern computer

7 nukes, it's always 7 nukes...
>

nigger

I don't see why it shouldn't run on XP in Virtualbox.

That shouldn't be .45cm, but .45m. You used the right value in rest of the calculation, though. About 3.2 times the displacement of the Hindenburg, then, which itself weighed 242 tons for 10 tons of useful lift. We don't really know if geography lets us get away with less range, but without pipelines we should not assume it helps much. What scaling laws affect structural requirements of a zeppelin? I'm fairly sure there'd be better payload fraction, but 35 tons seems reasonable.
How are carrier airstrips constructed? This seems like a relatively simple wood one over the gondola area (very long gondola, makes sense for structural reasons). 12 planes is stretching close to that limit already- about 3 tons per ki-43, a bit closer to 4 for an n1k- but if we assume cuts on fuel, conservative airship speed of 60mph or so leaving landing effortless when not docked (cranes used when docked?), and much less luxurious cabin space, this seems reasonable.

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Ahh fuck, you're right. 0.45m not 0.45cm.
Another interesting thing is that the exterior looks as if it's made of metal armor rather than fabric or the like, but that would make it insanely heavy.
Do they have same kind of wonder gas in their world?

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High Road to Revenge got a HD texture update for the XboneX and runs great on it.

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Probably not more armor than metal panels over things like the gun banks- zeppelins would look metallic because of aluminum powder in the compound they doped the skin with. If they're using helium that would cut payload pretty significantly, but the zeppelin would be pretty hard to kill. Still feasible though, especially if 2 squadrons is overload capacity.

That's a good question. Must have something to do with the name.

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youtube.com/watch?v=i23KRvtWLx8
og intro. real kino style

What’s going on here?

The only weak point of Zara. She is good at everything, and only by taking away her booze can she be finally defeated.

We need a comic about ZARA discovering the existence of ADI fluid and pestering the mechanic to include it.

Sasuga Mizushima.

>Alternate solution is that we never see their face and it's just a random recurring enemy that Kylie one day shoots down
Oh, they’d better fucking not...

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I would rather like if snek turns out to be one of the girls from the game, preferably from the Harukaze, so the anime-only will go "literally who" when snek got unmasked and everyone's freaking out.

I'm still wondering why the Harukaze story is so much longer than those of the other corps

Don't think it's going to be a mobage girl, but I believe it'll be a girl that will later be added to the mobage.

It seems Akatsuki and Gekitetsu's stories are unfinished yet, because there are girls without 3* versions, that are taken from the story. Like Kate has no 3* because she doesn't have an anime episode yet. So their stories' are still on-going. Meanwhile, Harukaze is more the main characters of the game, so their story is prioritized.

Fair enough
desu I haven't bothered with the Akatsuki, Gekitetsu and Canary stories yet because I want to finish Harukaze first
Still need like 1,3k points to unlock the last 2 episodes

sasuga Yea Forumsutism

Still thinks that Moa should have a 3* from the scene in the graveyard. That scene is really good.

>debt related.
Cock related*
She wants the magic wand.

Help, I can’t get the terrifying image of who’d end up playing a live-action Kylie out of my head!

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Please kill yourself.

Did she even meet him IRL before? She showed no reaction when they met on the street or the hotel, she only went crazy when they mentioned his name.

She wants that dick mate. That's how she'll repay her debt.

Agree, only possible punishment for the terror you forced upon our eyes.

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I generally like twin-engine fighters, but P-38 is ugly.

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You are sick.

Even worse, it's a one-off and never seen or heard from again.

She is not as obsessed with men's dicks as you are, user.

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No accounting for taste, I guess

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FW190

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Prefer the corsair myself, but anton 190s > Dora 190s. Can't beat the radials.

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>P-38 is ugly

you shut your whore mouth!

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I liked Strike Witches and WW2 aviation in General. this looks like something i can enjoy, but how actually good is this show outside of WW2 aviation appeal?

Just watch it you nigger turd.

Ep1 introduced rival not having any epic battle later. That doesnt sound like Japs

I like 1 engine heavy fighter planes with powerful engine, like FW-190 P-47, or Tempest, but Tempest is probably my favorite out of those three.

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>bare aluminum
MUH DICC

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Stay mad /u/shitter.

What the fuck? 2 or 3 years ago i dreamed about anime about cute girls flying WW2 planes in a desert, and now i see this?

Both cute and sexy.
Not so bad at all in medium altitude fighting. 2x20mm with high RoF on the cowling seems ideal against fighters.

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Contra rotating props get me hard

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Are you okay?

Y'know, I think the gas pressure on in Ijitsu is higher than on earth.

Damn, altogether these things have at least 60(!) turrets. Wonder if those side guns are intended for broadside zep-to-zep combat? If so, we’d better get to see some this season.

imgur.com/a/lq6IiaN

I'm the weird guy. If it has to be a fighter I'd say the BF-109G2 or the Spitfire MK IXe for those sexy clip wings. But the Catalina is comfy and beautiful.

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Cute

Considering that the P-38 was the plane used in the assassination of Admiral Yamamoto....it does have an ugly reputation....

A badass reputation.

The last number will decide what new planes we see in the next episode!
I wish I could read.

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I'll hold you to that.

>Looks to me like they house AA guns that were left unmanned for some reason.
Probably because they don't fill the ship to max capacity. They are not a military, they are a business. You don't hire more employees than you need to.

You like Ki-36?
Maybe we'll see how Kyrie became a pilot.

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>Maybe we'll see how Kyrie became a pilot.
They can't show THAT on Japanese television.

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You're behind the times.

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We can also show how she wound up there.

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Wait, what?

I don't get it.

We need to see the money more closely, because the issuer is very important to world building. Having paper currency means there is at least some kind of issuer, even if it is just a banking network.
And before anyone bring up gold reserves; it doesn't need to be gold. In Medieval Japan, rice was the value used to back promissory notes. And rulers pay subjects with rice. So in theory the banks in kotobuki could have similarly unusual backing behind their paper money. (In Fallout videogames, bottlecaps were the currency but it was backed by water. Water merchants accept the caps and everything else stem from that.)

Wtf even happened?

D4Y crash?

I thought in Fallout, the NCR issued notes were backed by gold, but then all the gold got irradiated so everyone went back to caps. It was something goofy like that.

Kotobuki's got a pretty developed society even though their world looks barren as shit. Bet it's a banking network. Man, air bank heists would be the coolest shit.

Someone also paste some WW2 IJN carrier silhouettes for comparison please.

>荒

Context check.

Oh look, they got Godzilla movies too!

>unguided missiles
You mean a rocket?

>unguided missiles

They're called rockets.

>then all the gold got irradiated
Gold doesn't work that way, no radioactive isotope of gold has a half life of more than a few days.

>Gold doesn't work that way, no radioactive isotope of gold has a half life of more than a few days.
It was just a retcon to go back to bottlecaps. Fallout 2 went to paper money for no good reason, and Bethesda just needed an excuse to go back to caps for F3.

>Dora 190s aren't radial-powered

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US chair farce pls gtfo

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>it does have an ugly reputation

Adolf Galland likened it to their own Bf 110 in terms of how its lousy performance made it such an easy kill.

Not sure if bait, but the Jumo 213 in the Dora is a watercooled inline.

>sexy pink one gets ukiyo-e’d
Looks like the art cutie took Zara’s advice and adopted a more abstract style.

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>twisted fetishes

?

Screw sideburns and propeller screws.

That is very perverted.

>Screw sideburns

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She's also always cute

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Colonel Bat Guano?!

I think has a question.

Read the book, nigger.

I ain't reading that shit, nigga!

It's all about a girl getting raped. Why wouldn't you read that?

You better read that shit, nigga.

For that very reason.

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NO U!

>for F3.
...Aside from taking place on the other side of the fucking continent?

tfw no G.50 Freccia gf

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Stupid slutty italians can't even close their cockpits right.

aww yeah.

i love corsair, but this is mine.
yes, it's a WWII design!

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>Fallout 2 went to paper money for now good reason

Uh, what? No they didn't. They still used caps. If you are thinking about those mine scrips in Redding, they were only secondary currencies.

NCR dollars lost its value because Brotherhood of Steel destroyed their gold reserves. The brotherhood ended up getting their asses beat as result though.

I remember them replacing the bottle caps with gold coins in Fallout 2.

They did not, different factions started moving towards other currencies, most likely because doing large trades in bottle caps would be unfeasible, but no government ever had enough control in the wasteland to establish a solid monetary policy, so everyone just kept using the Hubs water-backed bottlecaps.

/pol/a/k/

Is a priest allowed to fedora-tip in that setting?

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Ho-229

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Why was that one lone pirate just hanging around, made the whole episode feel kind of forced when it really didnt need to be

Fallout 2 used NCR coins as currency instead of bottlecaps.
fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Bottle_cap_(Fallout_2)

Finally, somebody drew the long-awaited pairing!

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I still can't figure out quite how I feel about this show. It's like it wants to take itself more seriously than GuP or your typical cute girls doing cute things anime, but it doesn't quite have the confidence to follow through with it. The girls seem like they could be sort of interesting but we're halfway through and only Kylie has gotten an episode so it clearly doesn't have time to do enough character development. It hints at some worldbuilding but doesn't seem committed to actually going anywhere with it. The air battles are well shot and fairly realistic but not spectacular either. It almost feels like the show was on the edge of being really good but then reminded itself that it only exists as an advertisement for a game and drags itself back into being mediocre. Ultimately it's entertaining but seems to have a lot of potential that it declines to work off of. Which I guess is par for the course for most single cour shows.

>The words sadism and sadist are derived from the aruthor's name.
Well that's a legacy

NAKAJIMA!

literally laughed out loud, well fucking played

Is there more official art of the girls with planes which are not in game and haven't been seen in anime?

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Is that yuunasia?

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Why are they all so bad at aiming?

If you guys could help me fill this out, that would be neat.
I need some sleep though.

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Hitting a maneuvering plane was difficult. They didn't have mouse for aiming.
Kotobukis are quite good shooters.

Northrop!

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Well you've already figured out far more than I know. Have you tried asking an Imperial Japanese Army Air Service veteran?

IAR
A
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>Some Japanese crossed into this world and brought airplanes with them. Somehow they went back and the portal closed, old dude for some reason stayed behind.

It sounds very much like Imperial Japan set up shop in an alternate world to build war machines where America couldn't bomb their shit. From previous statements about "Yufang," this was 60 years ago - so the show is set roughly in modern times. The Japanese closed the portal and pulled all their people out (except the old guy, for whatever reason,) in the closing days of the war, so this world has no clue that the other exists, and apparently the victorious Americans never learned of Japan's otherworldly expedition.

Of course, one marvels that the Japanese didn't try to send as many troops and personnel through the gate to make the mother of all hold-outs, in hopes of staging a comeback at a later date...

BROTHER

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NO! YOU'LL SUMMON THE PLANEFAG!

The autistic guy who hates all American planes?

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Metal-clad airships *did* exist, actually, though the Kotobuki ships seem to just be Aluminum-doped fabric like most historical ones.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMC-2

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>The autistic guy who hates all American planes?

Such lunatics exist?

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I'm fairly certain its the same guy who had a serious hateboner for American tanks when during GuP threads in 2013

Success breeds jealousy.

>I'm fairly certain its the same guy who had a serious hateboner for American tanks when during GuP threads in 2013

Far as I know there's two people called "planefag," one's some /tg/ questfag that triggers /u/ and the other's a drawfag that does porn that should not exist.

I guess that kind of autism would fit the latter one.

damn tootin

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I was more meaning that the thickness of the skin which you can see in these screenshots makes it look as if it's made of metal or some kind of thick armor - wasn't so much meaning the texture or color. Though this could simply be a thick frame that runs around the gun banks.

Though I do admit, I don't really know anything about airship construction.

The thickness of the ship itself as depicted is, I think, probably a limitation of the 3DCG technology they're using.

What it looks like they're going for is that those gun "bays" are of the same style of construction as the Hindenburg's Observation deck; a self-contained metal box affixed to the main rigid framework of the airship; with the skin in that particular area not fitted.

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That makes sense.
Looking closer at the screenshots, I think you can actually faintly make out the crossbeams that are under the skin.

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Also has old isekai books.

Blonde. Men are blond, women are blonde.

Does hair have a gender?

English words derived from French occasionally do.

female:pancake_denial

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About time!
Still, Kylie looks strangely displeased to be in the cockpit of something that not only resembles her favorite food, yet whose performance would’ve hilariously outclassed any of the other planes we’ve seen so far.

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This seems like a fitting punishment for that shit she pulled in the last episode.

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She will just tell them that snek attack her first.

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Uncropped version:
danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3421330

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Why is it always fat old brown men?

>It's like it wants to take itself more seriously than GuP
The Dodo being the Captain should tip you off otherwise. The director doesn't do full serious anything. Look at his horror anime works and how they end up more funny than anything.

Is this hellish torture the reason she turned out less than normal?

I see none.

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She is just frustrated she can't eat it.
1.
— Mou! This thing won't fly anymore!
— I wonder if that's not because you were being totally unreasonable!
2.
— Daijoubu, I've already ordered an aircraft you will be very pleased with as a replacement, so use it until repair is completed
— Eh? Really?
3.
— ...
— How is it, Kylie? New aircraft's condition (or mood idk, 調子)
4.
— WHAT THE HECK IS THIIS!?
— Official name is furaingu pankeeki. Not yet known (or strange, 未知) fighter aircraft.
— Pankeeki are not flying things! They are something you eat aren't they!?
— Kyahahahaha! Really a perfect fit for Kylie!

機体 (kitai, airframe/fuselage) probably means aircraft here so I translated it as such.

>yet another series with a KnK acronym
Why is this allowed to happen?

Based translator user.

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>Why is it always fat old brown men?
They have the most experience.

aerospace user here

it's circulation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_(fluid_dynamics)

Pankeiki!

It’s fine, Kotobuki will just be known as “the good KnK.”

Ki-61 looks so sleek. It's like Bf 109 of Japan.

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This is KnKH

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Cute boy.

They license build the engine used in 109 for it, which allowed a similar sleek fuselage.

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Speaking of cute Reona’s, (and assuming this is a shot from the game) looks like Ijitsu has at least some areas where water is abundant enough for nonessentials like this fountain.

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>assuming this is a shot from the game
This is not a game interface. And kotobuki squad story follows anime story.

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You know damn well where that screenshot is from, don't play dumb.

Ah, never mind then. I saved that pic from a link an user posted last week and couldn’t recall its context.

But they're (mostly) all good KnK, user.

pancake this, pancake that
stop with the fucking pancakes already

Does anyone fucking dies in this anime or is just another of those "let's play moe war lel" ?

Why are all your posts like this?

Does this look like a boy to you?

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Looks like the best kind of boy to me.

Thanks, but i was asking about someone relevant, im not saying like a protagonist, that would be to much to ask, but at least a minor character with some development, not some random pilot bad guy. (in GaF currently airing alot of random pilots die out and nobody gives a fuck)

only a boy would have dumbbells on his room

Found it:
pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=73136525
I genuinely didn’t, but apparently it’s a meme or something to photoshop shitty MMD models into the background of what I’m assuming is a VN or the like.
Pic related.

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Jesus Christ user

How is this maneuver called??
And is Zara only one who can perform it?

Nazarene guys other than those two are either dead or quit. We don't know who's which, but Rodriguez is definitely dead tho.

>apparently it’s a meme or something to photoshop shitty MMD models

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Where the fuck is the futa fanart

Pretty sure it's referring to planefag on twitter, who does reaction threads to each episode with ridiculous amounts of aerodynamics posting. Some of the posts in these threads have sounded like him.
Yes, this should be an occasion of happiness. She gets FAST and she gets a lower stall speed than her hayabusa.

Yes, very cute boy.

>planefag
>mistake Zero for P-36

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In my masturbatory fantasies.

What a retard.

Just say Kotobuki, faggot.

He also mistook the the Ki-67 bombers in ep5 for G4M “Betty”s, and kept referring to them as such even after Kate correctly identified them.
His commentary is still fairly entertaining, though, and he does make a good point on occasion.

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A retard and a pussy.

This, but really just

>Search the *boorus
>still no Roig art

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Faggot probably thinks live-fire exercises are pointless, too.

It seems like most of the protags have seen family members killed off in various ways.
Next episode looks like it’ll get into the backstory of Kate and her crippled brother. I also suspect that whatever event left Emma alone with this once-grand estate is why she harbors such a hatred for pirates.

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Delicious sweaty pits.

>Nazarene guys other than those two are either dead or quit. We don't know who's which, but Rodriguez is definitely dead tho.

That conveniently lets those remaining two get more screentime, and more focus as characters. And we've got a classic character archetype set up between them; the grizzled, experienced ace and the young hotshot with potential that has a lot to learn. And we know we'll be seeing more of them in the next episode from the previews.

>Pretty sure it's referring to planefag on twitter

That'd be the /tg/ questfag, one and the same.

He also thought the Pennsylvania class battleships had three turrets. Or at least, didn't think to look it up to make sure until after he'd written it into his quest. He still gets meme'd on routinely for that one. Picture related.

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You mean those were people actually shoot each other?
Does anyone else than Russians do those?

>You mean those were people actually shoot each other?
No.

He's a planefag and an autist, but he's also greek so that's like two steps forward, and one giant faceplant.

>>rich girl with twisted fetishes
That's the PERVERSIONS!? girl, the one with blue hair and the hat.

Actually, based on one of the tanks we saw in the newspaper, the Japanese travelled through the hole after ww2.

this is literally the opposite advice my flight instructors gave me. i dont know how many times i was told "control the plane, dont let it control you" and "dont get behind the aircraft"

soulless

We only know they left after the war.
Obviously he didn't fly a Zero 32 in WWII.

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Like watch first episode alone to see some redshirts dying

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I want a doujin where Emma shoves her feet up Darjeeling's ass.

And this is why you are here and she's a flying mercenary in Ancapistan.

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What is this face trying to convey?

Constipation.

That's what you get for wasting your money on 'real' flight lessons instead of learning to fly from an anime like a normal person.

>greek

No wonder he's a NEET that spergs about anime on twitter lul

Did some anons here read pic related ?
Just finished it and it is pretty good. MC is a test pilot, so we get to see most of the planes used by Japan, common or not, with a pretty good level of technical detail as well (and also shows some hilariously useless experiments done on planes).

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I wouldn't mind helping her out with that problem.

>so we get to see most of the planes used by Japan
Both army and navy planes? Is he some kind of man whore?

You needn't be condescending.

The MC is in the army, so mostly army planes. But he also gets to befriend a navy guy piloting a zero.
And more globally, the manga shows the rivalry between navy and army, you get to see both of them in action.

What he gets to fly?

Apparently Goldfinger never got the memo.

...

You say that as though you didn't realize that until just now.

>one marvels that the Japanese didn't try to send as many troops and personnel through the gate to make the mother of all hold-outs, in hopes of staging a comeback at a later date...

Or that they didn't muscle in on that world where no one would know about their expansionistic atrocities.

Hayabusa III, Hien I and II, Ki-57 "Topsy", Ki-100, Ki-102a.
He also gets to test a captured Mustang at some point.

Apparently Cassandra was a lunatic.

Just the ones with glaring design flaws or deficiencies stemming from retarded design decisions/doctrine (i.e. most of them).

Overhype brings backlash.

Quit circlejerking, it's unsightly.

Stay mad.

>She is just frustrated she can't eat it.

Good answer!

How did Japan manage to captured Mustang?

They distracted the pilot with anime tits.

>Screw sideburns

Wtf is that?

Parking a nuke with the gold and initiating it is a different story, since it will get vaporized, flung out by the blast, or be left surrounded by the remains of the building that remain radioactive for much longer. If that's what happened to the NCR gold, then it works.

Apparently China
mustang.gaetanmarie.com/articles/Japan/Japanese Captured P-51 Mustang.htm
>On January 16, 1945, an event occurred that gave the Japanese military a chance to become much more familiar with the Mustang. On that day, 1.Lt. Oliver E. Strawbridge of the 26th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, was hit by enemy gunfire and landed at the Japanese-held Suchin airfield in China. Some sources indicate he made a wheels-up landing, while others contend he landed his airplane normally. Pictures of the aircraft in Japanese hands show no obvious sign of damage or repairs. Had Strawbridge made a belly landing, the damage to the propeller and belly intake would have been very complicated for the Japanese to repair. One can therefore assume that the P-51 was captured intact.

>In any case his aircraft, a P-51C-11-NT nicknamed "Evalina", was rapidly seized by Japanese troops. Whatever damage the aircraft had taken was repaired rapidly. Hinomarus were painted over the American stars but the rest of the aircraft was left in its original scheme.

>“Evalina” was flown back to the Japanese Army Air Inspection Center in Fussa (now Yokota Air Base) by Yasuhiko Kuroe, a 30-victory ace.

>In Fussa, the Mustang's performance was evaluated by Kuroe, who recalls: (1)

>“I was astonished with its performance. Turn characteristics were splendid, almost the same as the Ki-84 in a horizontal turn. The radio transmitter was excellent, the armament and other miscellaneous equipment was very good, particularly when compared with their Japanese equivalents, and moreover it had a radio direction-finder. (2)

Did the Japanese ever get a damn thing out of attacking the Aleutians aside from handing the US an intact Zero?

>guy asks where
>she answers when

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dutch_Harbor
Minor victory and once in a lifetime landing.
I don't really understand why you are replying to these two guys and why can't you search something so simple from wikipedia yourself.

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>landed at the Japanese-held Suchin airfield in China

youtube.com/watch?v=CrH3XiMR3KA

If a plane still handled well, but couldn't fly home it was often safer to land it on a flat area than to jump.

why did they add this ugly thing to a group of cute girls?

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She's not ugly!

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I have not; seems like there's a French edition?

>go in other shows' threads to start shit
>get hit with the burn of a century
LMAOING @this shill

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>salesfags

She was cute when she started worrying.

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Behold the machine that single handedly BTFO'd both the rice farmers and the nazikeks.

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Why don't America paint their planes?

cute o face

the real ones were olive green with either dark or light grey underside depending if they were flying night/day

Because paint is heavy and draggy and WE ARE AMERICA FUCK HIDING.
Also way easier IFF when you can just assume the shiny ones are friendly.

Because airshows are frequented by faggots like

>Why don't America paint their planes?
Not strictly needed with aluminium, it's not like it can rust or anything. Paint was traditionally used to protect the metal, but Aluminium doesn't need it.

You do still have to keep the aluminum polished, which costs maintenance over a painted plane. Hence airliners not often using it. But the USAAF was rather generous with maintenance time, and it does increase performance over a hundred pounds of heavy-grain paint.
But yes, wasn't used in bombers apart from B-29 afaik.

French and Italians are the biggest weebs in the world. I mad jelly.

I was born in the wrong fucking timeline.

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>giant gas cylinders below the main saloon
what could go wrong?

>I was born in the wrong fucking timeline.
And to this day, we still couldn't find a substitute that was quiet. Noise pollution is the main reason flying is not allowed near cities, and we either need to bring airships back, or invent anti-gravity. Because propellers and jet engines are just too noisy.

They started fielding them without paint later in the war.

>Because paint is heavy and draggy

A pathetic excuse, considering no other country's military ever had that problem.

>and WE ARE AMERICA FUCK HIDING

Sounds like the usual BS our military likes to use to rationalize its retarded decisions.

>What is camouflage?

Dude, seriously?

That's why you're not allowed to touch anything at the Chair Farce museum, whereas the Navy's hardware feels no pain.

Oh I almost forgot.

>Also way easier IFF when you can just assume the shiny ones are friendly.

Also easier to spot, which is never a good thing on combat missions.

>aside from handing the US an intact Zero
>why can't you search something so simple
Are you so smug that you can't recognize context, or that for a person to show that context means they might already know about the thing you're condescending about? Losing that Zero made that battle a strategic defeat, and the question stands.

>Also easier to spot, which is never a good thing on combat missions.
Except for the fact that both sides made their identifying marks larger for missions where air combat was expected, specifically to avoid friendly fire.

Apparently I need to specify the obvious: it makes it easier for THE ENEMY to spot you, which puts you at a disadvantage against an enemy that has the basic sense to reduce their own aircraft's visibility.

Drag makes a significant difference especially on long range escort flights, which America started doing a rather notable amount of in late-war European Theater. Studies of aircraft camo also found it completely useless when viewing an aircraft from beneath, which was the situation with Germany on the defensive. And given how many more Allied aircraft than Axis flitting around, friendly fire is almost more a concern than enemies.
>A pathetic excuse, considering no other country's military ever had that problem
Tell me, how many land-based jets in the first couple decades after ww2 went with camouflage paint? Looks like pretty much all other nations did actually have that problem and landed on a similar solution.
Do you have any actual evidence that something they went out of their way to implement was just a retarded decision?

You think D-Day stripes didn't make it easier for Germans to spot planes?

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A combination of things.

>Performance
Paint adds a small but measurable amount of weight to a plane and increases air drag. Eliminate both and it can fly slightly faster or burn less fuel for the same distance.

>Cost
It takes a lot of effort to paint a plane the size of a house, plus how ever many further coats of paint you need to maintain that camo over the life of the aircraft. If you don't need to paint a plane you can roll them out of the factory and on to the front line that much sooner.

>(No) Need for camouflage
If you are painting your plane the same colour as the ground it's because you're worried about a hostile aircraft spotting it from the sky. If you paint your plane in sky colours it's because you want to see enemy pilots before they see you. As the allies had near absolute air superiority over Europe this was no longer an issue. No one is going to miss dozens of B-17s flying in formation regardless of what colour they are. And while being shiny bright might make individual fighters more vulnerable it didn't matter because the luftwaffe was outnumbered dozens to one at this point.

--

Bare metal was mostly an USAAF thing, and they didn't leave the entire plane bare, they still had to paint insignia and squadron markings. Parts of the plane that reflected sunlight into the eyes of the pilot/gunners were painted black to avoid blinding them, you can see that on the B-17 here. Navy aircraft by comparison were always painted blue on top and sky blue on the bottom for fighting over water (and to prevent saltwater corrosion). And night fighters were always painted black.

TLDR, paint just wasn't necessary anymore.

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Formation aircraft are amazing.

We do, just not when it's not necessary. A thousand bombers in formation aren't hiding.

That's irrelevant when you already have air superiority.

I thought that the B-17 was only really used in Europe. Wasn't it the B-29 that BTFO the Japs?

>planes

HHHHHNNNNNG

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Early in the war American aircraft were painted, but in 1942 the RAF did a few studies showing that an unpainted plane actually could gain a few mph with just a polished finished, mostly as a result of losing the weight of the paint.

For a fighter, the gain was small, but on a large bomber paint to cover all surfaces could actually weigh a whole lot. Aside from the improvements in weight (resulting in better speed and fuel efficiency), the use of clear coats would also speed up production and save on materials - and as others have noted, when you're in a bomber stream of 80+ B-17s or B-24s you're not going to be hiding anyway. Japan stopped painting their planes in the last years of the war as well, although more due to resource scarcity. In the USAAF, camouflage schemes were still applied on low-altitude aircraft, night fighters, and the USNAF also kept painting their fighters to the end of the conflict.

Paint was still added by frontline mechanics and squadrons for various reasons - sometimes to help with identification, like in the case of D-Day invasion stripes, and sometimes just for aesthetic reasons (nose art, squadron colours, etc.). Many squadron groups came up with their own distinctive schemes, like the "Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney" (the 352nd FG)

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The B-17 was used early on in the Pacific (they were based in Hawaii and the Philippines), but the real bomber workhouse against Japan was the B-25, as there was less in the way of reachable strategic targets like factories; bombers were put to work attacking ships, supply depots, transports, etc.

The Flying Fortress was withdrawn by 1943 in favour of B-24s - probably because of the severe hammering that B-17 groups took at the start of the war with Japan, and likely also to rationalize logistics by focusing on only a few types for each theatre.

You're still correct in that the B-29 was the bomber with the reach to carry out strategic bombing into the Japanese heartland itself - but that was long after the IJN and IJA had suffered crippling defeats, allowing US forces to set up airstrips to reach Japan. The extra range of the B-29 made basing a little more flexible, but the writing was on the wall at that point.

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>the RAF did a few studies showing that an unpainted plane actually could gain a few mph with just a polished finished, mostly as a result of losing the weight of the paint.

So why did they never quit painting their bombers?

Yes.

Yes.

The RAF got burned pretty bad early on in the war for a variety of reasons so they decided to switch strategic bombing tactics to favour night raids almost exclusively. This is in contrast to the USAAF which used daylight "precision" bombing. Consequently RAF bombers are all black on the bottom with the usual brown/green on the top.

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So is magic real in Kotobuki or does he just keep a flock of birds stashed in his plane?

>with the usual brown/green on the top

What's the point if it's dark out?!

...The planes don't just circle the earth staying on the night side, user. Sometimes, occasionally, they land.

>they land

Yes, when it's dark out.

The first three look like (attempt at) dazzle camouflage.

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You're doing it wrong.

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I'm really loving this show. Just got caught up after 4 weeks and I can safely say this is one of my favorite shows this season.

Oh forgot to mention, the liberators in the pic are formation assembly planes. Getting a few dozen bombers to fly in the right formation is quite hard, even in broad daylight with radio communications and everything.

So you take a worn out plane, one that you wouldn't want to fly to berlin and back, but it's good enough for this. You paint it up in bright garish colours that can't possibly be missed or mistaken for anyone else. Then you tell planes to take up positions in formation relative to the one that looks like a clown. Once your formation is set the assembly leader heads back to base the and the rest of the planes follow the leader in the front and maintain their position relative to the other planes as they all fly off to berlin, dresden, schwinefurt or wherever.

>schwinefurt

Is that anything like Schweinfurt?

Fuck off retard

that isn't even half as lewd as this

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I don't know for sure but I would guess it might be because the RAF had had a relatively recent experience with the Luftwaffe bombing the shit out of their airfields so they were more concerned about their planes being vulnerable on the ground and wanted to help camouflage them from air attack. Meanwhile the USAAF hadn't had any real experience with their airfields being bombed so they never got into the tradition of painting their bombers.

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I want to take Leona out on a date at a fancy restaurant and tell her she's pretty.

>no frilly panties

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I want to give zara a full body massage

>What's the point if it's dark out?!

The best camouflage at night is the same camouflage you wear during the day, actually. Pure black only makes sense against a pure black background... like, you know, the night sky. Try not to fly on moonlight nights and avoid the Milky Way, I guess.

WWII plane camouflages talks and Hien hasn't been posted?
This is a crime.

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