Product Description

-Aichi Meteor Kai is a Japanese naval ship attack aircraft produced at the end of the war.
-Until then, the Japanese Navy had produced both bombs and naval attacks, but it was meteor that was developed to do this with one aircraft.
-In 1964, the Navy ordered Aichi Aircraft to develop a fighter capable of lightning, horizontal bombing, and sudden drop bombing as an attack aircraft on 16 test ships.
-Aichi Aircraft, which required extremely severe performance in terms of speed, armament, and mobility, began research in October 1941, and completed the first prototype in December 1953.
-However, because the aircraft was overweight, the next Unit 2 was completely redesigned for the main wing structure, and each part of the aircraft was redesigned to reduce the weight.
-Since the meteor has a bomb bay that houses bombs inside the fuselage, the wings are now in the middle wing configuration.
-For this reason, it has a unique wing style called reverse gull wing to prevent the pedestal attached to the wing from becoming long.
-In addition, the flap is a double slotted flap, an aileron (aileron flap) and a horizontal tail angle adjustment device that interlock with this flap, a retractable dive brake for sudden drop bombing, etc. are also features of meteors.
-The meteor called the prototype and the augmented prototype as the trial meteor (B7A1), and used the Honor Type 11 engine.
-It is called Meteor Kai (B7A2) from mass production machines, and the engine is equipped with Honor 12 or 21.
-111 meteors, produced by the end of the war, were onboard aircraft, but could not be mounted on aircraft carriers and ended up in land operations only.

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-Crew: 2 people
-Full width: 14.40m
-Total length: 11.49m
-Height: 4.07m
-Total weight: 5,700kg
-Engine: Honor 12 air-cooled double star 18-cylinder
-Output: 1,825hp x 1
-Cruising range: 3,040km during bombing, 2,980km during lightning
-Maximum speed: 543km / h
-Fixed armament: 20mm gun in the wing, 2 rear seats 7.7mm or 13mm swivel gun
-Explosion: 500kg to 800kg bomb or 2 250kg bombs
-Lightning: 800kg torpedo


Item Size/Weight : 36.2 x 19.2 x 7.3 cm / 401g

Product Specifications

Item series

Hasegawa-JT

Country

Japan

Item code

19149

JAN code

4967834191495

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