Yes true about their figher planes being well designed but the engines
were made under license from Pratt & Whitney so Pearl Harbor was
bombed with warplanes powered by US war technology.
Later in the war they were using German engine technology (inverted
BMW motors), they never successfully made use of their own true
homegrown design of powering their aircraft.
I think even the Ohka manned missle used german rocket technology.
On 12/29/09, Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl> wrote:
> Datsun/Nissan started with the assembly of CKD kits from Austin, not the
> most advanced automotive design at the time. When they started to build
> cars on their own accord they were technically very similar to the
> Austin products. I believe that engines and gearboxes from both makes
> were interchangable in the beginning.
> However Toyota produced cars of their own design in the thirties and
> there were others.
> Do not forget that there were considerable engineering skils well before
> the war. They produced some very advanced and feared warplanes and such.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> Jack Feldman schreef:
>> The statement "Don't forget it was the Japanese that borrowed the Brit's
>> technology in the
>> 60's.... and through reverse engineering ... All things are possible..."
>> isn't exactly correct. Not much reverse engineering was necessary. Austin
>> Motors helped the start of the Japanese industry.
>>
>> My very first car was and Austin A40 Somerset. I loved the car, and sold
>> it
>> when I returned to the US. I have a couple of books about Austin, and the
>> books are clear that Austin shared technology with the Japanese.
>>
>> Who would have thought they would be a threat.
>>
>> Jack
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