NAKAJIMA Ki 43 - KAI ( mod )

[swallow]

Hello . looking for more info of a Nakajima Hayabusa Ki43-KAI ( mod ) with a fixed undercarriage !
found a smal drawing in ( Famous Fighters of the Second World War - second series - William Green .
Enyone knowing more ?

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[Airborne2001]

I am curious to know about this as well.

 

[Justo Miranda]

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[Justo Miranda]

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[blackkite]

It's the first time for me to hear such a version.
http://ktymtskz.my.coocan.jp/J/JP/abu10.htm

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GVoCIydVEY

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIOr8cv4eQ4&app=desktop

 

[windswords]

The only Nakajima Hayabusa "Ki-43-KAI" that I know of is the Type 1 single seat fighter model 2 Kai - also known as the Ki-43-II-KAI, and sometimes called the Ki-43-IIc. This was a model 2 (Ki-43-II) that was given individual exhaust stacks instead of the single collector exhaust on each side of the cowling. This scheme was carried over to the Ki-43 model 3 (Ki-43-IIIa) but with some slight changes.

Here is an example of a Ki-43-II-KAI: Ki-43-II-KAI 64th Sentai, 2nd Chutai, chutai CO Capt Hideo Miyabe, Burma, late 1944

 

[windswords]

Here is an example of a Ki-43-IIIa (all built by Tachikawa as Nakajima was now building the Ki-84), note the difference in the exhaust pattern:
Ki-43-IIIa 64th Sentai, 1st Chutai, sentai CO Maj Hideo Miabe, Krakor AF, Indochina, May 1945

 

[swallow]

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Thank you very much , Justo Miranda.