– FS2002/FS2004 Kawanishi H6K Mavis Type 97

FS2002/FS2004 Kawanishi H6K Mavis Type 97 Flying Boat. This is the second large-scale flying boat that Kawanishi produced. As a succession machine of Type 90 No. 2 flying boat, this was ordered to Kawanishi as Type 9 test flying boat in 1934. The chief design person is engineer Shizuo Kikuhara. To fill long large cruising range and a big airlift, four engines are installed in this aircraft. A long and slender main wing of aspect ratio 9.7 is adopted. Because Type 97 adopted a smart body, a triangular prop is put up in two places in the body upper part and it ties to the main wing and the prop was diagonally extended from the lower side of the body and the main wing was supported. Two kind of airframes (civilian type and military type) are included. By Kazunori Ito. 2,5 Mb