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Tango01 | 14 Aug 2015 9:08 p.m. PST |
"In an extended article for Aviation of Japan correspondent Mark Smith and co-author Mike Quan explore the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service's elegant Nakajima C6N Saiun (²Êë… – vibrant cloud) carrier based reconnaissance aircraft. The article is illustrated with images of Mark's own Saiun prototype model, built from the Hasegawa kit. From its inception the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (´óÈÕ±¾µÛ‡øº£ÜŠº½¿Õê – Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun K¨k¨±-tai) had stringent demands and high expectations of those who designed and built its aircraft. Performance specifications outlined for each new model required the highest level of innovation, financial risk, and imagination ¨C and even then seemed impossible to meet. Successful designs like Mitsubishi¡¯s A6M Zero fighter and Nakajima¡¯s B5N torpedo bomber had proven the wisdom of such a course. But in 1942, Nakajima¡¯s design engineers were asked to deliver against a specification for a new experimental carrier reconnaissance plane that must have come as a jolt.
A top speed of 350 knots at 6,000 meters and a maximum range of 2,500 nautical miles would be required for a machine carrying three crewmen, state-of-the-art radio and camera gear, a rear-seat machine gun, and arresting gear for carrier operations. The vaunted Zero-Sen, a pure fighter design unmatched in performance by any shipboard aircraft of any type then in service, had a top speed under 300 knots…"
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