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Nakajima

Built between 1927 and 1929, this two-seat twin-float sesquiplane was powered by a 224kW Hispano-Suiza engine and could attain a ...

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Intended to supersede the A1N1 and A1N2 in service, the NY prototype first flew in 1930. It was an unequal-span ...

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The first prototype of this equal-span biplane reconnaissance aircraft appeared in 1930 as the Type 90-2 Reconnaissance Floatplane, company designation ...

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A Japanese army requirement of 1927 for a new single-seat fighter was contested by Nakajima, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi. All the ...

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Designed to replace the company's E4N2 in navy service, Nakajima's MS submission was basically an updated version of the E4N2. ...

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Extensively test-flown in 1934, the Nakajima Ki-4 sesquiplane had divided landing gear with streamlined wheel spats, and accommodated pilot and ...

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The 1930s were a busy time for the Nakajima company. A whole series of experimental types appeared, including the Ki-8 ...

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When in mid-1935 Kawasaki, Mitsubishi and Nakajima were instructed by the Imperial Japanese Army to build competitive prototypes of advanced fighter aircraft, Nakajima responded with ...

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Nakajima acquired from Douglas Aircraft in the USA licence-construction rights for the DC-2 civil transport. In 1935 a smaller twin-engine ...

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Designed to a 1935 requirement, and already in service for four years when Japan entered the war, the Nakajima B5N was in 1941 ...

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With its relatively low-powered radial engine, two-blade propeller and twin rifle-calibre machine-gun armament, the Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (peregrine falcon) was the most dangerously underestimated Japanese ...

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The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu (storm dragon) was designed early in 1938 to replace the JAAF's successful Mitsubishi Ki-21 heavy bomber which, in fact, was ...

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Of similar general configuration to the Ki-43, the Nakajima Ki-44 prototypes incorporated the manoeuvring flaps that had been introduced on that aircraft, and carried ...

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At a time when the triumphs of the B5N were still almost three years in the future, the Japanese navy issued a ...

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Just as specialist night-fighter design had largely been ignored by European nations before World War II, Japan's similar failing left the country without adequate ...

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Japan was the only nation to produce and deliver into service float-equipped single-seat interceptor fighter seaplanes (the British Spitfire float adaptation did not progress beyond ...

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The first prototype flew on April 10, 1941. 7 built.

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Early experience in the Pacific war showing the need for a long-range carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, Nakajima was instructed in early ...

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Best of all Japanese fighters available in quantity during the last year of the war, the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (gale) not only possessed ...

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Developed as the Experimental 18-Shi Heavy Bomber Renzan (Nakajima G8N1), this was a very advanced long-range bomber powered by four ...

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Designed by Katsuji Nakamura and Kazuo Ohno and built to an 18-Shi specification for a high-speed single-seat interceptor fighter, the ...

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Encouraged by enthusiastic reports of the German Messerschmitt Me 262 from the Japanese air attache in Berlin, the Japanese naval staff instructed Nakajima to ...

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In January 1945 Nakajima was ordered by the Imperial Japanese Army to design and develop, as quickly as possible, a ...

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The first prototype flew in April 1945. One built.

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