Designer: Andrew C Wai
File: ki-100.zip
Date: April 2001
Rating: 8.9 -more info-
Available at Andrew's Homepage
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| KI-100-Ib
Designer: Andrew C Wai File: ki-100.zip Date: April 2001 Rating: 8.9 -more info- Available at Andrew's Homepage |
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The Ki-61-II Kai was potentially an excellent high-altitude fighter, but was plagued by the unreliability of the Kawasaki Ha-140 Vee engine and a low production rate. By Autumn 1944, therefore, Kawasaki were forced to store a number of airframes for lack of the appropriate engines, and in an inspired piece of improvisation combined the Ki-61-II Kai airframe with the Mitsubishi Ha-112-II radial engine. This was wider than the Ha-140, but a remarkably neat installation was devised to combine the radial engine with a narrow fuselage, and the first of three prototype conversions made its maiden flight in February 1945. There followed 272 and 118 new-build aircraft that entered service in two sub-variants, including the Ki-100-Ib with an all-round vision canopy, for service from March 1945. The Ki-100 was soon established as the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force's best fighter. Variants
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| KI-100-I Otsu
Designer: Andrew C Wai File: ki-100.zip Overall Rating: 8.9 Model irregularities: -Minor body irregularities -Missing intake above engine Panel: N
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