An Operational Japanese Zero Fighter Plane Flies High in Houston, USA 

that dude is the OG weeb

I love WW2 fighter planes. So iconic. The Zero, the BF 109, Spitfire, Mustang, and the Yak-9. They live on as legends.

What a beautiful piece of history.

I'm very glad that someone love Mitsubishi ZERO is in not only Japan but also the US. Thank you very much for your deep caring for ZERO. This ZERO must love you too.

Some cool intimate details that no one seems to mention whenever they make documentaries about planes. Had no idea they had little steps that pop out.

the processing looks freaking modern on this plane! Japanese were VERY innovative with this plane!

I love Zero, it’s such a beautifully proportional plane.

My favorite ww2 plane 1. A6M Zero 2. Mustang 3. Bf planes 4. Spitfire 5. Yak 9

in 1941, average Japanese navel pilot had 800 hours of flight time, in their hands, this plane was deadly. good video!

The engineering of this plane is spectacular

Everybody gangsta till some 90 year old man sees that thing flying above.

In 1969 when I was 7 I lived in Ewa Beach Hawaii. Late one afternoon I heard the drone of radial engine aircraft flying over the jungle near our house. I ran out the front door and there was a squadron of Japanese Zeros flying over the jungle (i.e. mock ups for a movie being filmed). I ran back in the house and said "mom, didn't we beat them already?!" It was absolutely surreal seeing this 28 years after it had actually happened in the place where it happened.

The way the wing tip folds so just so elegant complicated too but beautiful design

Looking at the condition of this plane, I bet its paintjob and overall structure is in better shape than the majority of Zeroes in actual service back in 41-45.

I watch this after watching The wind has risen, what a wonderful movie

The power of Japanese engineering

I will never get bored of watching these kind of videos

Gorgeous plane. Glad to see there are still some around today.

the wind rises?

4 guys are Helcats owners!:(

Man this thing is mint,thank you for the video,gorgeous airplane.

Excellent video,.........................and I think an Air Force General described the Zero as a " sports airplane with a 1500hp engine". A sports airplane it seemed to have been, but the Sakae radial engine was rated at less than 1000hp.....but it was a remarkable piece of areonautical engineering.. Greeting from Australia Les Griffiths.......................................

The A6M is among the most beautiful aircraft ever made! I love that sky grey colour, as well.

wow, that is an amazing honor for him to own one of the last surving original japanese zero's from the war ! !

Is there a longer version of this video. I’d love to see more about it

One of the best/most maneuverable fighter plane in ww2

Actually there are five. This is one of the last ones to be restored......so far.

It's a beauty for sure but with a tragic ending. The designer, Jiro Horikoshi never intended to let it become a suicide bomber which in reality upset him a lot.

I love the A6M, it will always be my favorite WW2 fighter aircraft,

what a beauty.... you lucky lucky lucky devil.....so jealous!!!

I was wondering why japanese cars are so good...

The Wind Rises brought me here

Cool! Thanks for sharing. If the Mitsubishi car company theoretically were to come out with a brand called "Zero", I bet many of today's school children wouldn't catch it. Thanks for keeping this facet of history alive.

"Zeroes were responsible on the infamous attacks on Pearl harbor" A6M2 Zero: *smug* Aichi D3A "Val": ... Nakajima B5N "Kate": are we a joke to you?

Let's hope the driver does not fly it into a solar eclipse Someone gets the reference

No matter how the WW2 was terrifying, Zéro fighteris definitely beautiful.

I love the zero for the complete opposite reasons I also love the big, heavy, powerful, fast, fat, flying tank the P47 is The Zero is a drift missile, while the Thunderbolt is a muscle car with wings and 8 .50 cals

I really love the fearsome look and sleekness of the infamous Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter Plane. It's actually my Number 1# World War 2 Fighter Plane of all time and I'm hoping to get COBI's newly released version of this amazing Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter Plane set maybe by my next Birthday, or even by next Christmas.

I live near Houston..one Saturday morn I was doing yard work..i live in the country by a small private air port...I could hear an airplane in the distance..thought nothing of it...it got louder and I turned to the east to see where it was and it was coming at me ...it looked like it was doing a strafeing run on my front yard....I could see the radial engine and saw red meatballs under the wings....it flew right over my house and started to bank left...I yelled to my son...go get the browning 1919....hahaha...

Love to see a low fly over video with a walk through its engine design.

My Japanese Grandfather in pearl harbor* (But with a Japanese Zero) my great grandfather was in WW2 as a Japanese he passed away last year so, when it's his birthday I go to Japan visit his tomb then I go flying a Japanese Zero (without guns I'm a pilot) and I just get flashbacks of the battles that happened in the Pacific

A masterpiece of restoration.....

The details are amazing

Holy shi*, that plane looks like it was made yesterday!

soooo cool. Japanese ingenuity and engineering is marvelous.

The Emperor would be proud

The details are amazing!

Favorite aircraft by country America: p51 mustang B26 marauder p39 aircobra b29 Stratofortress b17 flying fortress Great Britain: typhoon Wellington mosquito Lancaster swordfish spitfire Germany: fw ta 152 me 262 ju88 Do 335 Do 217 He 177 Italy: sm.79 p.108 (this probably the only heavy bomber designed to carry torpedoes) Fiat g.55 re.2005 MC.205 Russia: Ilyushin 2 Ilyushin 4 yak fighters la-5 Japan: a6m zero all variants ki67 g8n renzan ki61 ki83 b7a ryusei b6n tenzan d4y susei ki43 otsu n1k and ki84 tell me some of your favorite aircraft.

Such an awesome aircraft! It was well ahead of its time when entered into service. Ruled the sky until the Hellcat and Corsair arrived. Than it became quickly obsolate. Especially because the high command in Japan wouldn't let the engineers to put a better and much more powerful engine into the Zero's airframe, so they had to keep the rather weak but lightweight Sakae 21. When they have realized how wrong they were it was too late.

アメリカ人が零戦を愛してくれるのはとても嬉しいです。 私も零戦は大好きですが、 同じくらいF4F4ワイルドキャットが大好きです。

I might be German but I love the Japanese and Japanese culture and especially the zero

Mr Peach was my pilot when I got to fly in a P-51 over Galveston Bay. Barrel rolls, a split S and being wingtip to wingtip with another P-51. Unforgettable. The Zero was there in the hanger along with several other WW2 warplanes. A great day!

The nose has a tendency to dip towards naval ships.

Probably the most iconic fighter plane produced by Japan. Towards the end of WWII, the Japanese Zero became obsolete as the Allies developed counters and superior planes to the Japanese Zero, along with the severe loss of experienced and skilled pilots and the plane's serious weaknesses.

Wonder if I can buy and own a zero? Or I'm going to try and find one and refurbish it to make it flyable again and I'll think I'm going to only have two planes which would be the f-4c Phantom 2 and the A6M2 zero fighter most likely!

very nice toy... would love to have one to fly over Pearl Harbor some early Sunday morning on April Fool's Day...

零式二十一型甲 -- Zero Model 21, type-Kou with 7.62mm machine guns.

If the Luftwaffe had these during the Battle of Britain they would have won. That 6 hour plus endurance would have kept the sky clear of Spitfires.

Just genuinely one of most interesting planes out ther

It’s a close race, but I consider the Zero to be more beautiful than the Spitfire.

I don’t want it… I NEED IT

The zero could climb really well 3000 feet per minute big engine light weight no protection for the pilot. It was designed to out turn, and climb underpowered enemy aircraft designed in the 1930's like the F4F wildcat. Once the American's built much higher HP aircraft like the P-51, Hell Cat, and F4u Corsair the zero was no match for these. The Japanese did build newer aircraft that did match them nearing the end of the war.

loving the Japanese bandana to top it off :)

Most informative. I didn't know about the little steps to get into the cockpit and the levers for the wing folds.

That dude was JDM before JDM was even popular!

BANZAI!

For a radial fighter the A6M was a very aerodynamic design. Arguably the best dog fighter of WWII or very close to it.

河口湖飛行機博物館にピカピカの２１型があります。 飛行許可が下りないと聞きました。残念。 どうにか国内で飛ばせてあげたい。 安部首相、お願い致しますｗ。

Thank Jiro Hirokoshi.

Nice job mate! A light aerobatic craft. Maneuver was it's Fortai. At relatively slow speed. It was Samaria sword to it's pilots. Long range also with light fuel mixtures.

bear in mind that this particular aircraft has no guns so is lighter than a standard Zero by a couple of hundred pounds.

The Zero is one of the greatest fighter aircraft of all time. All of its lines are beautiful. Brilliant engineering and performance that could easily out-dogfight any aircraft in the world until the introduction of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.

My favorite aircraft of each ww2 country, Japan: A6M, US: P40, Germany: Bf109, Britain: Spitfire, Soviet Union: non

Lol, an American in a Zero looks like the old Marmaduke cartoons where there's a Great Dane in a compact car.

spirit of samurai.. light armour but speedy , manouvreable and gunny... woundable but deadlly...

which model of a6m is this and what engine has it?

His bandanna has the kanji 'kamikaze' on it; kinda ominous dontcha think?

It would be cool if people made reproduction WWII planes.

I don't think it's necessary to wear that Kamikaze headband,kinda ridiculous~

Japanese zeroes has a kill-death ratio of 12-1. It was a monster in the Pacific from 1940-1942. Until they were outclassed by newer allied fighter planes.

I think the culture preserved by Americans is wonderful.

I thought this was gonna be a joke but it’s actually pretty cool

My great-grandpa recalled seeing Zeros flying above the Philippines during World War 2. What an absolute powerhouse the Zero is.

ZERO IS THE HERO OF SKY !!!L 🌐❤️🇯🇵

0:36 who saw that v22 Osprey

Actually the Zero is a engineering design marvel, for its day its ability to dogfight was even superior to the Spitfire, the Brits found that out when their Hurricanes were blown out of the sky by Zeros so when the Spitfires showed up guess who got them as well? Turns out the Japanese came up with an aluminum alloy called extra super Duraluminum that was as strong as aluminum but much lighter as well, a fully loaded Zero came in at about 6000 lbs while the Wildcat empty came in at that weight as well, but adding up all the fuel and ammo and pilot made it too slow and heavy in a dogfight. He is right about the wing, there is a slight but noticeable wing curvature from the fuselage all the way to the wingtip and did make it difficult to produce but also gave it insane turning ability and once they were on your tail their dual 20mm cannons ripped you open. Because of its lightness it was also very economical to operate, its range was like over 1,000 miles and the damn thing could fly and fight with 87 octane gas, you could pull up to an Arco today and fill it with 87 octane and the thing would get you there and back, that is unless you got hit anywhere crucial, like pilot or engine or fuel tank, then it lit up real well and burned nicely. So if you played their game you were a goner, but if you just hit them and ran off in a dive chances are you would hit that weak spot and the plane just lit. Going forward, and knowing just how good Mitsubishi was at building that plane I decided to buy a Mitsubishi Mirage and cant get over the great mileage and quality engineering that goes into that car, just like the Zero, its light and maneuverable, but this time comes with 7 airbags, so even in an accident, you'll be just fine. I used to teach science and the Zero was my go to when teaching about acceleration and inertia, the planes design philosophy inspires even to this day!

Looking at the construction, it’s amazing they built them that well, under pressure.

S T R O N G “plays war thunder bursts into flames”

皇歴2600年、零式艦上戦闘機、デビュー。つまり、白人植民地主義を全てZeroに戻すという運命をZEROは帯びていたようですらある。

Great airplane!!! I want one...lol

There's only one operational zero left in the world,

Lets talk about the colour..spot on

I'm here because of the Studio Ghibli movie called The Wind Rises, that tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi (堀越 二郎 Horikoshi Jirō?), creator of Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

Did the zero ever come face to face with a spitfire?

Just FYI, 'operational' means it is still an active fighter aircraft. Still flying does not = operational. Also, the documentary says the Zero was 'responsible' for the attack on Pearl. The Zero was a fighter aircraft and flew mainly top cover for the bombers. Most of the destruction was wrought by the D3A Val dive-bomber and B5N Kate torpedo bomber, which was also a very stable platform for high-level precision bombing (as demonstrated when an 800kg bomb from one penetrated the upper deck, detonating in the forward magazine, resulting in the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona).

おっちゃん零戦ホントに好きなんやな〜

The cowling certainly looks authentic. Does any one know if it has a real Nakajima Sakae 12?

This plane is worth it's weight in gold.

you have to admit though. Japan had ppl power back home. They could make some quality, hand made planes for sheer number of population that wasnt fighting at the time. They made quality, they just couldnt acquire enough resources to keep it feed. Then of course, we Americans developed planes that could match it and pilots to learn how the enemy works and plan around. interesting video :)

神風のハチマキをつけも爆装はしないぐらいなら勝利のハチマキを付けたらいいのに