Did the japanese really borrow Howard Hughes design and used it to make the zero fighter?

Question

In the movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes mentions that, "the japs stole my design for their zero planes". Is this really true, false, or were the two design just similar, or did the movie people just make that up?

Answer 1

true/he also invented the constallation design and built it and flew it//very talented man//

Answer 2

Well, Hughes probably really believed that. As did many Americans, Australians, New Zealanders and Brits during the war. Racism had a lot to do with it; however the fact that the Japanese aircraft industry was in fact coping designs (the C47 for example) added some plausibility.

In fact, once this rumor started: that it actually was a US/Brit design-it became "the perfect fighter". No one in the PR world apparently figured out if it WAS a US/Brit design why the hell wasn't it in production for those Navies, instead of the POS's they were forced to use at the beginning of the war?

Answer 3

Zero was designed by Japanese engineer. But nobody believed that, at the time, inferior Asian monkey can't make a good aircraft (when that Japs were actually able to make aircraft carriers). Some people at the time of Pearl Harbor even believed that the pilots can't be Japanese for the same reason. So it's natural that there's a scene like that.

Answer 4

Uh, no. It's more Hollywood "artistic license".

It was designed by Mitsubishi's chief designer, Jiro Horikoshi.

Also, most of the airplane was built of T-7178 aluminum, a top-secret aluminum alloy developed by the Japanese just for this aircraft. It was lighter and stronger than the normal aluminum used at the time, but more brittle.

The American military discovered many of the A6M's unique attributes when they recovered the Akutan Zero - a mostly-intact specimen on Akutan Island in the Aleutians. Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga was losing oil and attempted an emergency landing but the Zero flipped over in soft ground and the pilot died of head wounds. The relatively undamaged fighter was recovered and shipped to North Air Station, North Island, San Diego. Subsequent testing of the repaired A6M revealed not only its strengths but also deficiencies in design and performance.[

Answer 5

Howard Hughes H1

Answer 6

After reading several of the comments here I decided to point something out. Yes there were many Americans and other allied nations who hated the Japanese during WWII. Yes they were hated for more than Racial reasons. Many who hated them did so more due to the supposed "Sneaky" underhandedness of the Pearl Harbour attack. Also due to the many cruel and inhuman ways the Japanese military killed and treated not only prisoners but those they fought against. Research atrocities committed by the Japanese against all of those they fought against during WWII and when they invaded China. Why exactly were the Japanese able to commit such heinous acts against those they fought against? Because they were extremely Racist themselves. Believing all non Japanese people to be sub human. I am in no way condoning any racist feelings towards any race. Just stating that all Races were guilty of racial hatred during that time. Not just the White men and women fighting during WWII.

Answer 7

The Japs weren't influenced by the Hughes design.

Answer 8

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