Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Japanese cockpits in WW2 were very different. Let's take a look at the Raiden's using a modern flight sim.

Updates:
The airspeed indicator does work properly in Aces of Thunder. I was wrong about that.
The bottles are indeed for fire suppression. I don't know if they are simply carbon dioxide or some other extinguishing agent.
The thing that looks like a thermometer indicates flow of Oxygen to the pilot.
The elevator trim wheel did not have ridges on it on. It turns out that was on the J2M3. The J2M2's elevator wheel had holes in it to allow the pilot to tell the difference by feel.

More intel coming soon. So much that I might just re do the entire video.

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