Remove The Propellers

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 01/31/2015 at 19:16 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Part of the ceasefire agreement with Japan required that they remove the propellers from all aircraft. Here you can see a large number of Mitsubishi A6M5 Zeros, and other aircraft, with the props removed. They were scrapped and helped rebuild the country.

Jcarr > f86sabre 01/31/2015 at 19:23

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Perfectly logical, but a shame given how few remain today.

Steve in Manhattan > f86sabre 01/31/2015 at 19:23

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... and eventually turned them into Corollas, which were a new sort of surprise attack.

DoYouEvenShift > f86sabre 01/31/2015 at 19:35

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Why scrap just the prop and not the entire aircraft?

f86sabre > DoYouEvenShift 01/31/2015 at 20:08

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they pulled the props at the ceasefire so the aircraft would not be a threat. They aircraft were scrapped later.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > f86sabre 01/31/2015 at 20:57

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Yep, at least they saved a few that weren't assembled yet. Pile all the planes!

DoYouEvenShift > f86sabre 01/31/2015 at 21:07

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Ah, I see.

f86sabre > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 01/31/2015 at 21:41

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first pic are actually P-40s.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 02/02/2015 at 16:19

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That's how I feel about that huge stack of P-40s in the reply above.