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More tidbits on the Ki-100
Kawasaki Ki-100 Goshiki-sen(Year 5 fighter)
Builder: Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo K.K.
Type: Interceptor fighter.
In March 1945, Allied aircraft operating over Japan began encountering an exceptionally potent interceptor which appeared in none of their recognition manuals. It was not however, a totally new aircraft, but the most successful improvisation of the war.
As 1944 turned into 1945, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force and Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo were faced with a dilemma. They had a good fighter, the Ki-61 Hien(Swallow) whose liquid-cooled engine was both increasingly troublesome and becoming harder to obtain. The last straw was a B-29 raid in January 1945 that completely destroyed the factory making the engines leaving some 275 airframes badly needed by the country standing idle with no engines. Kawasaki was ordered to find a new engine for the Ki-61 as soon as possible. The only available engine with enough power and a reputation for reliability was the Mitsubishi Kinsei, a large-diameter radial engine designed for naval bombers. Fitting this wide engine into the narrow fuselage of the Hien was tricky but after examining an imported FW-190 and consulting the Navy which had just fitted the Kinsei into the D4Y Suisei bomber for similar reasons, the necessary adjustments were made and the first radial-powered Hien flew in February 1945. It had no name, being known only like all IJAAF aircraft by its airframe(kitai) number, Ki-100 and like most Japanese aircraft, Army or Navy by its function and year of introduction, Goshiki-sen, the Year 5 Fighter. (It did not even have an Allied code name having caught the opposition by surprise.)
Almost immediately, engineers and pilots alike realized that they had stumbled into greatness. The Ki-100 was slightly slower than the Hien due to wind resistance from the radial engine, but was lighter and more maneuverable. More important it could be counted on due to the reliablity of the engine. It soon acquired a reputation as the best, most reliable, and easiest to fly of any IJAAF fighter. Even the newest pilots could fly the Goshiki-sen like a pro, and in the hands of a pro it could be deadly. It was superior to the F6F Hellcat and pilots soon regarded the Grumman fighter as an easy kill In the first encounter between Hellcats and Ki-100's, 14 of the Hellcats were shot down without loss to the Japanese. It also proved capable if intercepting B-29's. It even proved itself the equal of the P-51 Mustang, contests between the two aircraft being determined by pilot skill rather than the merits of the aircraft. It was in a Ki-100 that Major Hinoki Yohei, the Douglas Bader of Japan, an ace who kept on flying despite severe injuries, scored his 12th and final kill of the war, downing a Mustang flown by Capt. William Benbow. Not bad for an improvisation.
Ki-100's built from scratch rather than from existing airframes featured an all-round vision bubble hood canopy.
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