Tag: experimental

• Kawanishi Norm – Part Four – A Powerful Flop

  

  From all accounts great things were expected from the Kawanishi reconnaissance float plane. And then the contra-rotating propellers and jettison-able float proved problematical and the service missions undertaken with the type were failures. So it was quietly shoved back into a training role. The appearance of the aircraft in the box art was what attracted…

  Dick Stein

  March 22, 2023

  1:72 scale, Czech models, frugality, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Secondhand

  experimental, floatplane, Japanese, prototype