Maps
Japan: major airfields and arsenals xxvi
Figures
- 1.1Japan’s first balloon launch at the Ministry of the Navy’s Tsukiji parade grounds 16
- 1.2Shimazu Genzō’s balloon launch 18
- 1.3The Yamada Airship no. 2 21
- 1.4Student pilot Tokugawa Yoshitoshi in a Farman biplane 28
- 1.5Japan’s first pilots 31
- 1.6Young Tarō in his Farman biplane bombing the enemy 36
- 2.1A Japanese aircraft made in France: Shigeno’s Wakadori 42
- 2.2The navy’s Type Mo large seaplane 45
- 2.3The “Aviator of Qingdao”: Gunther Plüschow in his Taube monoplane 48
- 2.4Kusakari’s sketches illustrating the new concept of three-dimensional warfare 52
- 2.5A triumphal arch saluting Faure and his officers at Gifu Station 59
- 2.6An early flight simulator at Kakamigahara 61
- 3.1
The title page of Asahi’s Memorial Picture Report on the “visit Europe flight” 91 - 3.2The “Great Visit Europe Flight” as a board game 92
- 4.1Building the Do N: a look at Kawasaki’s shop floor 100
- 4.2The Kawasaki Type 87 bomber 101
- 4.3Baumann’s 1927 Tobi reconnaissance aircraft that became known as the “praying mantis” 106
- 4.4The Dornier-Kawasaki team 108
- 4.5The proposed bombing run from Taiwan to the US bases at Manila 117
- 4.6A large group of army officials proudly posing in front of the Superheavy Bomber 122
- 5.1The made-in-Japan version of Heinkel’s Hansa Brandenburg W 29 146
- 5.2The successful launch of Heinkel’s floatplane from a gun turret 150
- 5.3Sir William Francis Forbes-Sempill, the leader of the British Aviation Mission 158
- 6.1A workman holding a large duralumin spar 172
- 6.2The Mitsubishi Type R flying boat 177
- 6.3The Nippon Kōkū airline’s Kawanishi K-7A seaplane 180
- 7.1Japan Air Transport’s “Super Express in the Sky” 209
- 7.2“DC-4 Off for Japan” 211
- 7.3Pratt & Whitney’s engine plant and Mitsubishi’s Daikō plant 214
- 7.4Asahi’s record-breaking Kamikaze aircraft 224
- 7.5High-tech made in Japan: the long-range research airplane Kōkenki 226
- 7.6A map of the Nippon’s 52,860-kilometer around-the-world trip 228
- 7.7Front page of one of the Japanese Files Research Project reports 230
- 8.1
A functional diagram of the TR-10, Japan’s first turbojet engine 237 - 8.2The BMW 003 jet engine: schematic and blueprint 249
- 8.3A functional diagram of the Ne-20, the engine that powered Japan’s first jet fighter 250
- 8.4The Shūsui rocket interceptor shortly before takeoff 253
- 8.5The Kikka jet aircraft preparing for takeoff 256
- 8.6The Kikka during takeoff run 256
- 8.7An Ōka suicide attacker 259
- E.1A once-proud air fleet crammed in a scrapyard 273
- E.2The five-ring Olympics symbol painted in the sky over Tokyo on October 10, 1964 278
Tables
- 4.1Three generations of Japanese bombers 115
- 4.2Three generations of the Imperial Japanese Army’s aircraft, 1921–35 134
- 5.1A list of the aircraft delivery that arrived with the Sempill mission 159
- 7.1Japan’s annual aircraft production: speculation and facts 222