Micubiši Ki 15 / C5M [Babs]

Mitsubishi Ki-15 / C5M - přehled verzí

Mitsubishi Ki-15 and Mitsubishi C5M - overview of versions


九七式司令部偵察機 - Kyūnana-shiki sireibu teisatsuki - Type 97 army reconnaissance aircraft


九八式陸上偵察機 - Kyūhachi-shiki rikujō teisatsuki - Type 98 naval reconnaissance aircraft


Allied reporting name: Babs



DesignationAircraft design - description
Mitsubishi Ki-15-I prototype built in 1935, flown in 1936 and mass produced from May 1937, Nakajima Ha-8 engine.
Mitsubishi Ki-15-II mass-produced from 1939, performance increased after the installation of the new Mitsubishi Ha-26 engine
Mitsubishi Ki-15-III one prototype was produced in 1939, the Mitsubishi Ha 102 engine, it was no longer in series production.
Mitsubishi C5M1 1938 produced 20 naval aircraft modified from the Ki-15-II, Mitsubishi Zuisei 12 engine with 875 hp.
Mitsubishi C5M2 1940 produced 30 naval aircraft with 950 hp Nakajima Sakae 12 engines




A total of 439 Ki-15 aircraft and 50 C5M aircraft were produced
Production was carried out at 三菱重工業株式会社- Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya



Sources used:
Rene J. Francillion Ph.D., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1987, ISBN 0-87021-313-X.
Robert C. Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe, Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941, London, Putnam Aeronautical Books, 1990, ISBN 0-85177-840-2.
Tadeusz Januszewski and Kryzysztof Zalewski, Japońskie samoloty marynarski 1912-1945, vol. 1., Lampart, 2000, ISBN: 83-86776-50-1.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/spyww2/ki15.html
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/spyww2/c5m.html
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Mitsubishi Ki-15 and C5M
"Army command reconnaissance plane Type 97"
and "Maritime reconnaissance plane, Type 98"


History:
In the days of the 6. to 9. 4. 1937 formed the crew of a japanese aircraft Karigane, which had been the property of the print group Asahi Shimbun, world record recognised by the FAI. Pilots Iinuma and Tsukagoshi have flown with jednomotorovým aircraft a distance of 15 353 km in 51 hours and 17 minutes. It was the distance from Tokyo to London and this years was made on the occasion of the coronation of king George VI and of course it was about the years with mezipřistáními. The printing company the Asahi Shimbun, he was a known benefactor and promoter of aviation and aircraft.
No one then knew that the plane Karigane is the second prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designated by the system Kitai as a Mitsubishi Ki-15. The aircraft was created on the basis of the technical requirements of the Rikugun Koku Hombu from the year 1935. The requirements were for its time, quite demanding, max. speed of 450 km/h at a height of 3 000 meters, the radius of action of at least 1 000 km, thanks to the high maximum speed was for the defense of an aeroplane required armament of a single machine gun the Type 89, such armament was sufficient for the seen in this category of aircraft, as well as later, the main protection should be a high maximum speed.
In the factory Mitsubishi Jukugyo To.To. work took the designers Fumihiko Kono, Masakichi Mizuno and Tomio Kubo. Design work began in mid-1935, and in may of 1936 when it was zalétání found that new aircraft is made, the requirements of the army air forces managed to cross and so she followed the order on serial machines. The first production aircraft came to the units from may 1937. Army air force adopted it under the designation "Army command reconnaissance plane Type 97 Model 1" and after the adoption of it had deployed to the fighting in China, here it was confirmed that the weak chinese air force cannot prevent the new aircraft in their reconnaissance years, the compromise is likely to only fighters I-15bis and I-16 soviet provenance, but those should be the Chinese a little. One bad feature, however, the first version of the Ki-15's had large diameter devítiválcového engine Nakajima Ha-8, and the ring around him to prevent the outlook during taxiing, take-off and landing.
From June 1938 has been tested a new version of the Ki-15-IIor also "Army command reconnaissance plane Type 97 Model 2", the main change was the installation of a more powerful čtrnáctiválcového engine Mitsubishi Ha-26, this engine was not only more powerful, but also had a smaller frontal cross-section, the new version was not only higher performance, but a substantially improved view of the pilot.
The last military version has been in the arsenal of the already unanswered version of Mitsubishi Ki-15-III, the airframe was installed again, a more powerful engine, this time Mitsubishi Ha-102, which powered trojlistou variable pitch propeller. Performances have gone up despite the handicap of the undercarriage at a very decent value ( e.g. max. speed up to 530 km/h), prefer in manufacture, however, already got a new promising type - twin-engine Mitsubishi Ki-46.
Military aircraft showed a very good service, and in particular on the chinese battlefield and in the first phase of the war in the Pacific, however, once the allied air force has intensified and came more powerful types of fighters, there were design flaws Babs (that was the allied code name for this type) - the lack of defense and completely missing the passive protection of the crew and fuel tanks, Rikugun Koku Hombu withdrew the remaining Ki-15 in the air of schools and to the courier service. A few dozen of these aircraft met the sad fate of most japanese aircraft - suicidal mission, Babs took flight as a single-seater and under the fuselage carried čtvrttunovou mountain lion.

Also interesting is the fact that the army reconnaissance aircraft Ki-15 was one of the very exceptional cases, when the naval air force has ordered for your units of military machines.
It happened in 1938, when Kaigun Koku Hombu (command of naval air force) ordered 20 aircraft Ki-15-II, now of course redesignated C5M1 or also "Maritime reconnaissance aircraft Typ98 model 1".. let me Remind, that there was a traditional rivalry between the army and navy, the rivalry and rivalries tříštila production and development capacity of japanese factories and wasting money. The navy, however, in 1937, foolishly, gave up the introduction of reconnaissance aircraft C3N1 in the arsenal, and now was forced to weaponry to include aircraft produced for the army air force! Powertrain the engine was Mitsubishi Suisei 12. Aircraft have confirmed their good reputation and have proven themselves even in the maritime air force, soon followed by a second order, this time for 30 aircraft, but more dramatically improved and tagged C5M2. The navy required changes, however, increased the mass of the aeroplane so much that despite a more powerful engine, its performance declined.
The best known operational deployment of the aircraft C5M2 is undoubtedly the finding of the british association Of day 10.12.1941, which have been uploaded bombers, which it sank.

sources:
Robert C Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe, Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1990, ISBN: 1557505632
Rene J. Francillion PhD., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Naval Institute Press, rok 1987, ISBN-13: 978-0870213137
Vaclav Nemecek, Military aircraft 3 part, the second supplemented edition, Our Troops, Prague 1992, ISBN 80-206-0117-1
L+K 4/1985, p.29, Aircraft 39-45, Václav Němeček
http://base13.glasnet.ru/aoj/mi/ki15.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/spyww2/ki15.html
www.daveswarbirds.com
www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org
www.aviastar.org
http://www.cofe.ru/avia/M/M-145.htm
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Micubiši Ki 15 / C5M [Babs] - Micubiši Ki-15-II

Micubiši Ki-15-II
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Dovolím si nesouhlasit s popiskami, jde o tu samou fotku (přesněji fotku Ki-15 II), jen v jiné kvalitě.
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Quote - Aubi :

I beg to differ with the captions, it's the same photo (more accurately a photo of a Ki-15 II), just in a different quality.

Which type is it?

I copied them from the given topics to have some picture here. There needs to be a telling picture in the overview topics as well. At least 600 x 315px resolution.
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Předpokládám že to je Ki-15-II.
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