Mitsubishi « Kamikaze-go »: a civilian Ki-15 for the Tokyo-London flight

[Graham1973]

I'd be interested in finding details on a high-speed long range plane from the 1930's. I'm not sure of the manufacturer, but it set the record for a Tokyo - London Flight in 1937.

It's name gave the title to one of the more enjoyable piano concertos of the same period, Hisato Ohzawa's Piano Concerto Nº. 3 "Kamikaze"....

The cd cover below has a photograph of the plane:

 

[blackkite]

It's Kamikaze-go.(神風号)
Asahi news paper company asked the IJA to use Mitsubishi Ki-15, 97-shiki world's first strategic reconnaissance aircraft N0.2 as Tokyo London friendship flight plane. Kamikaze-go took off Tokyo Tachikawa air port, landed London in 19th of April 1937.
Flight time was 94hour 17 minutes 56 seconds.(including gas charge time, etc)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zuMjJnSto

 

[blackkite]

Hi! The explanation of Mitsubishi Ki15.


The flight route: Tokyo(Tachikawa)-Taipei-Hanoi-Calcutta-Baghdad-Rome-Paris-London
It's also sightseeing flight for crew. ;D


http://www.colesaircraft.com/ki15.html

 

[Justo Miranda]

Hi

 

[blackkite]

Thanks Justo! Beautiful.
神風(Kamikaze)'s "神" means God(of course Japanese God ;D ).
And "風" means wind as you already know.
Also Kamikaze was the name of special attack,too.

http://search.babylon.com/?s=img&babsrc=HP_ss&q=%E7%A5%9E%E9%A2%A8%E5%8F%B7

 

[Graham1973]

Thanks to everyone who responded, that clears it up. I've found a copy of the concerto online at youtube, if anyone is interested just PM me and I'll link it to the thread.

 

[Stargazer]

New topic split from the old "Japanese Projects before 1945" thread...