| LUCIANO GIANFILIPPI, e-mail, 15.09.2025 08:32 Ishikawajima project and produced by Tachikawa.
Since 1936 were produced 23 ac as KKY , and 2 as KS-1.
KKY were used too as ambulances, and KS-1 too for Japan Airways (one with registration J-AARD).
DATA: dimensions / 10 mt; 7,90 mt; wings surface 22 sq.mt;
engine 120 HP; max speed 180 km /h; range 620 kmt; reply |
| JOSH CASEY, e-mail, 13.02.2012 03:55 UNKNOWN TO VERTUALLY EVERYONE, JAPAN WAS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE BRITISH. THIS PARTICULAR PLANE RESEMBLES A DEHAVILAND DOVE OR MOTH. IT WARIED IN HORSEPOWER FROM 50-200HP. DURING THE OPENING YEARS OF WW2, THE JAPANESE THOUGHT THEY WERE FLYING AGAINST SPITFIRES & HURRICANES; NOT CURTISS P-40 WARHAWKS FLOWN BY THE AMERICAN AVG COMMANDED BY THE LEGENDARY COLONEL CHARLES CHENNAULT. reply |
