Ki-115-II

[Justo Miranda]

Real or fake?

 

[royabulgaf]

Fake. Why does it need retractable landing gear?

 

[blackkite]

No doubt it's a after war work. The drawer of this picture said so. ;D
There were three plans for Ki-115.
They were 甲(kou), 乙(otsu) and trainer version.
Otsu had wooden big wing and forward moved cockpit for good view. Only planned. (Kou's wing span: 8.6m, Otsu's wing span: 9.72m)
The trainer version had small wings at the trailing edge of the wing to improve take off and landing performance.
Ki-115's control performance was very poor for Japanese beginner pilot at the day.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/airplane/museum/nakajima/speck.html

https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E4%B8%AD%E5%B3%B6+%E3%82%AD-115&hl=ja&pwst=1&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=7wuKT8jsEouNmQXLv5jvCQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CA0Q_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=675

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/tsmc/net/page_thumb105.html

 

[Tophe]

The source seems http://www.warbirds.jp/kakuki/kaksei/ki115-2.htm
(the kakuki collection is a great collection of fakes, including many twin-boomers presented in my book "The end of Forked Ghosts")
Translated in English, this page is　:
http://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.warbirds.jp%2Fkakuki%2Fkaksei%2Fki115-2.htm

 

[blackkite]

Thanks Tophe!

 

[redstar72]

It's curious, but this "Ki-115-II" looks much like monoplane version of one unrealized Borovkov/Florov biplane fighter project: