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Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa
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- Airline: Japan - Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
- Photo Date: Sep 02, 2014
- Uploaded: Jan 10, 2015
- Seattle Boeing Field/King County - KBFI, USA - Washington
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On display in the Museum of Flight WWII Gallery at Boeing Field. Some history of this Nakajima’s Ki-43 Hayabusa (“Peregrine Falcon”): This bird entered service with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (I.J.A.A.F.) in late 1941 and served until the end of World War II. When production ended in August 1945, Nakajima and Tachikawa had built 5,919 Ki-43s, making the Hayabusa the I.J.A.A.F.’s most-widely produced aircraft. Known to Allied pilots by the codename Oscar, the Hayabusa was perhaps the most maneuverable fighter of World War II – even more maneuverable than the Imperial Japanese Navy’s legendary Mitsubishi Zero (for which the Hayabusa was often mistaken). The Hayabusa, however, shared the Zero’s shortcomings: Inadequate offensive firepower and inadequate defensive armor, deficiencies that proved increasingly lethal for Japanese pilots from 1943 on (Source: www.museumofflight.org
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On display in the Museum of Flight WWII Gallery at Boeing Field. Some history of this Nakajima’s Ki-43 Hayabusa (“Peregrine Falcon”): This bird entered service with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (I.J.A.A.F.) in late 1941 and served until the end of World War II. When production ended in August 1945, Nakajima and Tachikawa had built 5,919 Ki-43s, making the Hayabusa the I.J.A.A.F.’s most-widely produced aircraft. Known to Allied pilots by the codename Oscar, the Hayabusa was perhaps the most maneuverable fighter of World War II – even more maneuverable than the Imperial Japanese Navy’s legendary Mitsubishi Zero (for which the Hayabusa was often mistaken). The Hayabusa, however, shared the Zero’s shortcomings: Inadequate offensive firepower and inadequate defensive armor, deficiencies that proved increasingly lethal for Japanese pilots from 1943 on (Source: www.museumofflight.orgCamera
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- Reg: full info | photos
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Aircraft:
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa
- Airline: Japan - Imperial Japanese Army Air Service
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Seattle Boeing Field/King County - KBFI
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