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| Description | Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Kawasaki Ki-100-1b at the RAF Museum, Cosford, Shropshire, 8 July 2020. The Ki-100 was an unexpectedly successful lash-up of Kawasaki Ki-61 Hein airframes which did not have the 1,160hp Kawasaki Ha-40 engines (license-built Daimler Benz DB601’s) they were designed for since the factory producing them had been totally destroyed by an USAAF bombing raid in January 1945. However, there were more powerful 1,500hp Mitsubishi Ha-112 engines available and even though they were 14-cylinder, two-row, air-cooled, radial engines much wider than the V12 inline liquid-cooled DB engines, they were attached to the Ki-61 airframes to produce the Ki-100 – and the unlikely result was one of the best IJAAF fighters of the war, able to mix it with the best Allied fighters, except at high altitudes where the power of the engine dropped off. The war ended before many were built (about 375) and the example preserved at Cosford is the only surviving example. It was captured at an airfield in Saigon in August 1945. |
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| Author | Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK |
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