What happened here?

[Ruy Horta]

The reason this forum was added was an extra service to the community, not to compete with the excellent J-aircraft (how could it?!). Interesting subjects however can always pop up, although it has been silent for a while.

[Jukka Juutinen]

Well, I did ask a serious question which apparently goes unanswered. Had I asked "Did Saburo Sakai take off at 12.00 hrs or 12.01 hrs on date X" the answers would be pouring in, I guess.

[Ruy Horta]

Were IJNAF and IJAAF fighters designed to similar structural specs? What were the allowed g-limits and VNE of e.g. the J2M3?

Perhaps I'm getting too cynical lately, but I very much doubt that you were expecting serious answers here.

What the lack of reactions proofs is that the TOCH crowd is not as technical as you would have wished...

On a constructive level, here's a chance to share this knowledge with fellow community members!


EDIT:
Personally I am interested in the subject, I've collected some Japanese languange reference (can't read them). Unfortunately that's a community forum, you must be satisfied with the answers you get, if any...

[Jukka Juutinen]

I never ask questions just to provoke. If I knew the answer, I´d tell you.

[JoeB]

Originally Posted by Jukka Juutinen

Had I asked "Did Saburo Sakai take off at 12.00 hrs or 12.01 hrs on date X" the answers would be pouring in, I guess.

It's an interesting comment about the different personalities of the two fora, which is a pretty clear difference IMO besides the fact one's original focus is LW and one Japanese air arms. Here most posts are about ops/losses/tail numbers LW v Allies this or that day, on J-a majority of posts are on model plane building. J-a doesn't have anywhere near as much about when Sakai took off as this forum does about when some LW guy took off. J has some aeronautical engineering discussion (you contribute to), relatively rare on TOCH even about LW planes. I enjoy most the bit broader (than one day or one pilot) operational discussions on both. I wish both had more of a tendency to compare and contrast between air wars on the same high level they discuss their specialities, but that's not common on either one. Relative lack of activity on this sub forum tends to illustrate that, there just aren't that many people intensely interested in both, apparently. On TOCH esp the main people seem to have a pretty rigid idea of "off topic", if you relate something to an air war outside WWII LW and opponents, it's irrelevant.

Anyway I enjoy lurking and occasionally contributing on both, taking each for what it is (I wish J-a would adopt this software format though).

Joe