Akagi and Kaga were given different exhaust systems to evaluate in real-world conditions. Kaga 's funnel gases were collected in a pair of long horizontal ducts which discharged at the rear of each side of the flight deck, in spite of predictions by a number of prominent naval architects that they would not keep the hot gases away from the flight deck. The predictions proved to be correct, not least because Kaga was slower than the Akagi which allowed the gases to rise and interfere with landing operations. Another drawback was that the heat of the gases made the crew's quarters located on the side of the ship by the funnels almost uninhabitable.
I wonder if the smoke from the funnels made it into some of those rear crew quarters too. Didn't sound like much of a fun experience either way.
this is...Why did you stop using the jet engines?
You were lying when you said you were slow, weren't you?Such a wasteKaga's early design (with triple flight deck)this is the funnelher old look...Obviously has turboIllustration of Kaga from Zuikaku's imaginationcoollooks like it can flyThis is the sub-engine
just the gunsCool-looking cannons facing straight ahead
no, they don't shoot beamsKaga-sanWhat are you looking at? That's my old designIt won't be any use for referenceThose aren't jet nozzles, they're just normal funnels
You think I'm an OOPART or something ?
OOPARTs = Out Of Place ARTifacts, things that should not exist in the time period that they do, for example because it would require technology more advanced than would have been available to produce, such as finding a mobile phone in an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb.
In this case, jet engines were not operationally serviceable until towards the end of the war, hence Kaga's comment
