In the early Taisho era, the main task of civil aviation was to use domestic and imported aircraft to hold toll flights throughout the country, showing what an aircraft is like this.
The prototype of this toll flight was created by the Boldwin squadron, which came to Japan in 1911.
Charles Niles, which came to Japan in December 1915, Art Smith, who came to Japan in March 1916, and Cazason-Stinson, who came to Japan in December 1916, performed various aerobatics such as looping and rolling over, and gathered to hear the reputation of the crowd.
Because it was such a situation, there were a lot of people who strongly desired the realization of aerobatics in the person concerned of the civil aviation in Japan, too.
After the destruction of Inage in the storm surge of 1912, Ito Airplane Research Institute started its activities in 1912 after a suitable place in Saginuma (now Narashino City) in Tsudanuma Town, and Tomoshi Inagaki, a graduate of Tokyo Advanced Technology (the predecessor of Tokyo Institute of Technology), joined the institute. Inagaki designed Tsuruhane No. 2 as a aerobatic aircraft from the beginning. At that time, there was no airplane dedicated to aerobatics in the IJA and the IJN, and Inagaki had a great hard time making this up.
In addition, Toyotaro Yamagata had not experience for looping. Inagaki looked for the book of the maneuver published in England, explained the aerobatic control method to Yamagata., and Yamagata also bound his body to get sense of looping, and wanted to the test flight of "Tsuruhane No. 2".
The test began on April 24, 1912, and on May 4, 10 days later, he finally succeeded looping.
On May 10, The City of Tokyo celebrated the 50th anniversary of the relocation of the city, Yamagata took part in a commemorative celebratory flight of the Imperial Flight Association on Tsuruhane No. 2. In the wind speed 2Om, he took off from the airfield of Suzaki and performed two loopings.
Yamagata became a leading expert in aerobatics after being acclaimed for the evening edition of many newspapers of the day.