Mitsubishi Ki-15 Kamikaze build
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17 4 March 2021, 12:22
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It's a precious photo.🙂 Iinuma Masaaki wrote in his memoir that he had loaded a lot of luggage into the cockpit.
4 March 2021, 14:01
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The flight was a big sensation, even before it arrived, and it is quite documented, both during the flight (at each stop) and afterwards, when the airplane toured Europe and flew back, retracing its steps. For those interested, there are even some films of the arrival of the Kamikaze in Croydon (London) on YouTube :
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9 March 2021, 15:10
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Thank you for your comments. I uploaded a number of period pictures to work out some details. A few pictures have Japanese text that I would love to have translated... If anybody cn help, that would be great !
9 March 2021, 22:04
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Pic #14: Date: Year 12 of "S" era (Shōwa?), 5th month, 21st day
Asked my friend to read the rest, but it's gonna take a while.
10 March 2021, 08:39
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I read comments a while ago and you may already have the translated information. I'm sorry to interrupt you but the text is written as follows.
#14 Pilot Iinuma returned to Haneda after successful European- Asia liaison flight. 5.21. 1937
#18 Their Japanese signatures on post card.
#23 Photo of telegraphist and navigator's seat. ① : nose direction (the red arrow indicates) , The transmitter. ⓶: The Receiving machine.
11 March 2021, 07:28
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Thank you Lukasz and Akira, that is very useful. So photo 14 was taken on May 21rst 1937, when the Kamikaze landed back in Japan. I know there were a lot of celebrations, including a big air pageant in June, but I did not have a picture of the landing in Haneda airport.
11 March 2021, 15:12
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On the morning of April 1 1937, Kamikaze's naming ceremony and departure ceremony were held at Haneda airport, and after that, they headed to Tachikawa airbase in Tokyo.
It is said that Haneda's runway is too short to take off for full fuel loaded Kamikaze.
They took off at midnight the next day, but returned due to bad weather and a radio failure.
The restart took off from Tachikawaa at 2:12 am on April 6.
On May 21 1937, they first landed at airfield in Osaka and arrived at Haneda airport in Tokyo that same day.
The next day, they were invited to the court and awarded a medal.
Grand celebration ceremonies were held in various parts of Tokyo, and crowded rushed in.
Over the months that followed, they traveled around Japan and were welcomed and blessed by large number of people everywhere.
As far as I know, no Japanese has received such a large celebration ceremony from so many people. Even the parade of Olympic medalists of JAPAN is much smaller. (^o^)
photos can be seen here.
THE JAPANESE LINDBERGHS | Album by akira (1:48)
12 March 2021, 13:26
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Hi Boris, your detailed research and beautiful accurate work is wonderful!
Actually, I wrote a new kit review of this Finemold's Kamikaze in "Hobby Japan" model magazine in Japan about two years ago, so I'd like to post more materials on my album tomorrow night.
24 March 2021, 11:22
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Thank you for your kind words, Akira. I thought this would be a 'week' build (I have yet to complete a kit in a week-end!) after a couple of longer builds needing modifications, but now I find that even FineMolds can make some mistakes, so construction is slowing down...
I would of course be very interested in your other documents and a link to your review maybe ?
25 March 2021, 11:42
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Hi Boris, I hope my post is useful for your reference・・
THE JAPANESE LINDBERGHS | Album by akira (1:48)
26 March 2021, 07:36
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After a long pause, hesitating about how to proceed with the canopy, I took this build up again and decided opening both the front and back of it was too risky. So I went ahead, wishing the open canopy option was provided for by Fine Molds...
It should now be completed in the coming days... or weeks !
20 July 2022, 16:59