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Mitsubishi Babs vol. 2

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By (author): Giuseppe Picarella

Mitsubishi Babs Vol. II The worlds first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft completes the history of Japans revolutionary high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft design. This second volume describes the Imperial Japanese Navys flawed attempts to develop its own high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft and their decision to ultimately adopt the Armys magnificent Ki-15 design into Navy service as the C5M/Type-98 Reconnaissance Plane (Allied codename Babs). Across eight chapters Mitsubishi Babs Vol. II outlines the unit histories and the operational deployment of Navy C5M aircraft during the Sino-Japanese and Pacific War, andhow, through Army support and training, the Navy was finally able to perform its own long-range strategic reconnaissance missions deep into mainland China and Australia.A major portion of Vol. II is devoted to the first highly detailed technical description of this aircraft to be compiled since the Mitsubishi engineering department completed the final Babs airframe in August 1941. Individual coverage of the Ki-15-I, civilian Karigane-I, Ki-15-II, Karigane-II, C5M1, C5M2 and Ki-15-III provides aviation historians and modellers alike with an in-depth understanding of individual airframe systems and reconnaissance equipment, all lavishly supported with custom artwork, cutaways, original engineering drawings and detailed photographs. A chapter is also devoted to the pilots operating manual, which describes exactly how to fly this high performance aircraft.The often inaccurately reported capabilities of Babs are reviewed across two chapters which outline what the Allied intelligence teams believed about the aircraft, supported by crash investigations and technical reports.And to counter these numerous technical inaccuracies and half-truths, two chapters are devoted to reassessing various technical aspects of the aircraft, with the hope of correcting the history books once and for all. The first deals with the all important performance figures, while the second reveals the somewhat absurd manufacturing and assembly details of the Army and Navy airframes, the true production figures and decoding the Babs Construction numbers and prefix codes.The book also contains a small chapter on the history of Babs model kits and surviving memorabilia. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 208 x 300mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Dec 2023
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo STRATUS Artur Juszczak
  • Publication City/Country: Poland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9788367227162

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