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    The Kawanishi H8K is a flying boat used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II for maritime patrol duties. The Allied reporting...
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    Kawanishi Engineering Works' assets. While Kawanishi was best known for its seaplanes, such as the Kawanishi H6K and H8K flying boats, its N1K-J land-based fighter...
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    The Kawanishi N1K was an Imperial Japanese Navy fighter aircraft, developed in two forms: the N1K Kyōfū (強風, "Strong Wind", Allied reporting name "Rex")...
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    faster fighter aircraft. In front-line service, it was replaced by the Kawanishi H8K. It continued in service throughout the war, but in areas where the...
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    The Kawanishi Baika (梅花, "Ume Blossom") was a pulsejet-powered kamikaze ("divine wind") aircraft under development for the Imperial Japanese Navy towards...
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    flying boat of the conflict, the Kawanishi H8K. Its design was based upon its immediate predecessor, the Kawanishi H6K, but was a considerably larger...
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    requested the Kawanishi Aircraft Company produce a replacement for the company's Kawanishi E5K. The resulting design, designated the Kawanishi E7K1, was an...
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    culminated on 4 March 1942, with an unsuccessful attack carried out by two Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boats. This was the longest distance ever undertaken...
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    break the water suction on the afterbody. Two steps were used on the Kawanishi H8K. A step increases the drag in flight. The drag contribution from the...
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    role, configuration, and era Blohm & Voss BV 222 Blohm & Voss P 200 Kawanishi H8K Martin JRM Mars Short Shetland Hughes H-4 Hercules Related lists List...
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  • Mitsubishi G3M bomber was remarkable for its range and speed, and the Kawanishi H8K was the world's best flying boat. The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning...
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    Blohm & Voss BV 222 Blohm & Voss BV 238 Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Kawanishi H8K Saunders-Roe Princess Short Shetland Short Sunderland Related lists...
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  • Reconnaissance Seaplane Norm 1941 15 IJN Kawanishi H6K Type 97 Large Flying Boat Mavis 1936 215 IJN Kawanishi H8K Type 2 Large Flying Boat Emily 1941 167...
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    Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor Short Sunderland Sikorsky XPBS-1 Kawanishi H6K "Mavis" Kawanishi H8K "Emily" Related lists List of bomber aircraft List of United...
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    eliminating the shroud reduced the mass. Aichi D1A Aichi D3A Kawanishi E7K2 Kawanishi H6K Kawanishi H8K Kyūshū Q1W Mitsubishi F1M2 Mitsubishi G3M Mitsubishi G4M...
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    1943 the seaplane base on Makin was completed and ready to accommodate Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boat bombers, Nakajima A6M2-N "Rufe" floatplane fighters...
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    plane Kawanishi H6K2/4-L 1938 (Transport Flying boat) Kawanishi H6K3 1939 (Transport Flying boat) Kawanishi H8K2-L Seiku (Transport version of H8K) Kawanishi...
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    boat. For the Axis Powers, there were the long-range Japanese Kawanishi H6K and Kawanishi H8K flying boats, and the German Blohm & Voss BV 138 diesel-engined...
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    Kawanishi H8K, 1941–1945...
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  • which featured a Kawamura-developed belt feed mechanism. Kawanishi H6K Kawanishi H8K Kawanishi N1K Mitsubishi A6M Mitsubishi G3M Mitsubishi G4M Mitsubishi...
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    1941. Promoted posthumously to Marshal Admiral. Killed in action when Kawanishi H8K ("Emily") flying boat crashed during a typhoon between Palau and Davao...
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    merchant marine over the following year. Koga was killed when his plane, a Kawanishi H8K ("Emily") flying boat, crashed during a typhoon between Palau and Davao...
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    Clipper (Served along with PB2Y as C-98) Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger Kawanishi H6K Kawanishi H8K Martin PBM Mariner Short Sunderland Sikorsky XPBS-1 Related lists...
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    rated at 6800m MK4V [Ha-32] 27 1,795 horsepower (1,339 kW) Kawanishi E15K Kawanishi H8K Kawanishi N1K Mitsubishi G4M Mitsubishi J2M Mitsubishi Ki-21 Nakajima...
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    and strafed patrol planes and fighter-seaplanes in the area. Fifteen Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boats and seven Nakajima A6M2-N "Rufe" floatplane fighters...
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    (12,228 units, e.g. Aichi D3A), Mitsubishi Kasei (16,486 units, e.g. Kawanishi H8K), Nakajima Sakae (30,233 units, e.g. Mitsubishi A6M and Nakajima Ki-43)...
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    in early 1944. On 31 March 1944 Koga was killed when his aircraft (a Kawanishi H8K) flew into a typhoon and crashed. Koga's chief of staff, Vice Admiral...
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  • Kawanishi H8K 131 1941 Navy flying boat maritime reconnaissance also built as transport Kawanishi K6K 3 1938 Navy biplane seaplane trainer Kawanishi K8K...
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    configuration, and era Chyetverikov MDR-3 Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Kawanishi H8K "Emily" Sikorsky VS-44 Tupolev MTB-2 Related lists List of aircraft...
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    patrol flying boat (closed gun turret position, as all the following) Kawanishi H8K – patrol flying boat Mitsubishi G4M – medium bomber Mitsubishi Ki-67...
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