Hi! Aichi AB-1(Aichi Biplane-1)civil transport and her competitor Mitsubishi MC-1, Nakajima N-36.
The Ministry of Communications Civil Aviation Bureau invited the prize design of the pure domestic transport plane which will convey cargo with a passenger in 1925.
This was a transport plane...
Ok, in 1940 the war as just started or was about to start (for Italy and Japan) and things were going fairly well. In Germany and Italy airlines and governments started to plan for the expected post-war increase in air traffic, expecially on the Atlantic routes (sound familiar?).
Diffrently...
airliner
axis powers
civil aviation
empire ofjapan
kingdom of italy
ministryof aeronautics (kingdom of italy)
ministryofcommunicationsandtransport (japan)
ministryof munitions (empire ofjapan)
ministryof the air force (kingdom of italy)
nazi germany
reichsluftfahrtministerium
third reich
world war ii
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