Nakadžima A1N

Nakajima A1N - přehled verzí
Nakajima A1N - an overview of the versions

Gloster Gambet
the british prototype of the on-board tank of 1926, the engine the Bristol Jupiter VI, the performance of 420 horsepower

Nakajima A1N1
production in the years 1928-29, entered service in April 1929 as a naval fighter aircraft of the Type 3 ( 3. year of the reign of the emperor)

Nakajima A1N2
a later version with a more powerful engine made in the number of 100 aircraft, production ceased in 1932

Manufacturer : Nakajima Hikoki Kabushiki Kaisha.

Total production: 150 aircraft

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三式艦上戦闘機 / San-shiki kanjo sentoki / on-board fighter type 3

Brief history:
Command of the imperial japanese navy air force (Kaigun Koku Hombu) decided in 1926 to replace the already slow the aging carrier-based fighter Mitsubishi Type 10 or 1MF4, which has been in service since 1923.
The competition participated in the factory, Aichi, Mitsubishi*, Nakajima and Kawanishi, the latter a company of your own iniciativity claimed a type of To 11. The Factory Nakajima Hikoki To. To. claimed the plane, which suggested to H. P. Folland, the designer of the british factory Gloster. Designer of Folland has just completed the prototype aircraft Gambetit was the aircraft for the naval air force built on the basis of a ground fighter aircraft Gloster Gamecoc. Soon found out that it is in Britain's interest and so he welcomed the interest of the Japanese.

The newly-built aircraft had an all-wood construction and the wings with neshodným wingspan, powered it radial devítiválcový engine the Bristol Jupiter VI, the performance of 520 horsepower. Of course there was the reinforced construction of the chassis and a grappling hook. Nakajima acquired this aircraft in 1927, including production rights. the Aircraft was renamed and so in the course of comparative tests was designated Nakajima Type G.

During the tests it was found that the Type G does not reach such performances, as the domestic competition. He was, however, lighter and even more manoeuvrable and better to use, it positively was evaluated the stability when shooting. Kaigun Koku Hombu declared Type G for the winner of the competition and prominulo while the factory of Nakajima, that failed to comply with several other requirements, one of them was, for example, was the requirement for water tightness of certain parts of the airplane that had an emergency landing on the surface to secure the crew enough time to leave the aeroplane.

Further adjustments were conducted by the japanese team of designers under the guidance of engineer Takao Yoshidy. The most important was the replacement of the engine the Bristol Jupiter VI, which had a maximum power of 520 horses. Serial machines were powered by less powerful engines Nakajima Jupiter VI, but on the performance of 420 horsepower. The lower performance of the engine is logically showed slightly lower performances of the aeroplane. Serial production of these aircraft, with the ran in 1928 and gave a total of fifty aircraft, these planes were on the deck of the japanese aircraft carriers Hosho, Akagi, Kaga and later in Ryujo and have been here the staff quite popular. Navy is used as a carrier-based fighter type 3. Using the label you derive that he was in armaments adopted in the third year of the reign of emperor Hirohito (in Europe was in the year 1929). Soon the marking was completed and the aircraft was known as the A1N1, according to the new system.

In 1930 came in the weapons slightly upgraded and lightened version of the A1N2 with the engine Nakajima Kotobuki 2, this version was made in stokusové series and was produced until 1932. In the service he remained until 1935. Apart from the mentioned carriers is used Kasumigaura Kokutai on land bases. These aircraft took part in smaller fights in China.

* Mitsubishi entered into this contest your prototype 1MF9 Taka,

sources:
Rene J. Francillion PhD, Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Naval Institute Press, rok 1987, ISBN-13: 978-0870213137
Robert Mikesh, Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941 US Naval Institute Press, rok 1990, ISBN:10-1557505632
William Green and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every Fighter Aircraft Built and Flown, Smithmark Publisher, 1995, ISBN-10: 0831739398
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/gambet.html
navalhistory.flixco.info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_A1N
http://surfcity.kund.dalnet.se/a1n.htm
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww15/f/1019/65/0
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