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Built by Osaka Imperial University and Syowa Kookuu-keiki Co.Ltd., likely on a Imperial Japanese Navy contract. Note that postwar the Japanese use the American spelling for analyser, i.e. analyzer. There are a couple of pictures at the original article. It had an older (completed in 1942)...

Hi! Aichi AB-1(Aichi Biplane-1)civil transport and her competitor Mitsubishi MC-1, Nakajima N-36. The Ministry of Communications Civil Aviation Bureau invited the prize design of the pure domestic transport plane which will convey cargo with a passenger in 1925. This was a transport plane...

In 1932, the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a specification for its 7-Shi Land-based Attack. The only known contender (and winner) of that competition was the Hiro G2H1, or Type 95 Land-based Medium Attack, Twin Engine, also commonly known as the "Dai-ko" or "Big Attack." It was a remarkably...

Hi Aichi F1A. Competitor of Mitsubishi F1M. There was a sea plane version and a land base plane version of F1A.

Hi! Kawanishi E13K. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/sww2/e13k.html Auto translation. In 1937, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to change the old Scout Kawanishi E7K seaplanes (Navy Type 94 Reconnaissance Seaplane) to more advanced aircraft. For this purpose, contracts were signed with companies...

Hi! Aichi E16A1 Zuiun.

I split those two unknown designs, posted by blackkite and found by him here http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ak277301/28343919.html, from the "Fugaku : Z-plane, G10 or G12" thread and took the liberty to start this new one . The title will be changed, when we know more about their origins, but I...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJH2UzYrLw That earthquake of 1944 : censored by japanese government of that period !

Going o/t but on a tangent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E5dB_9dW2SQ

...the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/navcol/SSG/review/1-2/eng_1-2-4.pdf

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201304140030

Hi! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1K5R2wBpWw

Hi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABhachi_Ninomiya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WsPnusghwc

While going through some Japanese sources I came across these seemingly undocumented projects: 7-Shi Special Bomber (one Nakajima prototype built — program cancelled) 7-Shi Reconnaissance Seaplane [E7N] (unbuilt Nakajima contender of the E7K "Alf" and E7A) 8-Shi Fighter (Nakajima proposal —...

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Hi! Kawanishi E10K. It was the furst Kawanishi designed flying boat as 9-shi night reconnaissance seaplane. But not selected by the IJN. One prototype was converted into transport version as 94-shiki transport flying boat which had the gear for land transportation. Source:ENCYCLOPEDIA OF...

Nakajima Ki-49 III with Nakajima Ha-117 of 2 420 hp: anyone have images and more info about it ?

7試 7-Shi Twin-Engined Carrier Aircraft (1932) Mitsubishi 3MT5 and 3MT5A > Type 93 Land-Based Attack [first G1M] 7試 艦上戦闘機 7-Shi Carrier Fighter (1932) Mitsubishi 1MF10 Nakajima NC? NK1F? 7試 艦上攻撃機 7-Shi Carrier Attack (1932) Aichi AB-8 Mitsubishi 3MT10 / Ka-5 Nakajima [B3N]...

Hi all! Maybe somebody can help with better, or at least bigger, drawing of this triplane monster? The only one which I could find is this (see attachment). I found it here: http://www.straggleresearch.com/2010/10/navy-type-10-carrier-torpedo-aircraft.html.

Hi Guys Here is very interesting. I was not aware of the fact that the Japanese were experimenting with helicopters. Check out this link. http://www.warandgame.info/2007/10/japanese-vtol.html Regards Gerhard