The Cockpit VHS cover.
Video Movie (1993)
Japanese title: ザ・コクピット
Starring:
Ken'yû Horiuchi (Hauptman [Flight Lieutenant] von Rheindars)
Hikaru Midorikawa (Ensign Nogami)
Ichirô Nagai (Godal)
Masâki Okabe (Narrator)
Three aviation focused war stories of Axis participants.
Note: This is an animated work. The aircraft shown in it are therefore not actual aircraft. However, where a reasonable depiction of an actual aircraft has been created, it has been identified as best as possible.
Slipstream (成層圏気流)[]
Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A[]
First, we see an instrument panel roughly this of a Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A.
Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A wearing incomplete Geschwaderkommodore chevron marking. Usually a Kommodore is an Oberst (colonel), not a Hauptman (Flight Lieutenant) like von Rheindars.
Spitfire F Mk XII[]
Spitfire F Mk XIIs of 41 Sqn. Royal Air Force.
Focke-Wulf Ta 152 H[]
Action set in August 1944 but the Focke-Wulf Ta 152 operational testing was conducted only in November 1944. The script is about a Tank Ta 152 H but the anime is nearest a shorter wingspan Tank Ta 152 C.
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress[]
Sonic Boom Squadron (音速雷撃隊)[]
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver[]
Mitsubishi G4M & Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka[]
Last Ohka attack occured on June 1945 but action is set on 6th August 1945. And no Ohka raid involved so many mothership.
Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka[]
Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero[]
Grumman F6F Hellcat[]
Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai[]
Mitsubishi G4M2e Model 24 Tei[]
Knight of the Iron Dragon (鉄の竜騎兵)[]
Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien[]
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress[]
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