Nakajima E2N - version overview
Nakajima E2N1 Type 15 Model 1
Reconnaissance aircraft manufactured since May 1927
Nakajima E2N2 Type 15 Model 2
Version created after the introduction of minor improvements in production
A total of 80 aircraft were built between 1925 and 1930
Brief History:
In 1925, Kaigun Koku Hombu announced a competition for a reconnaissance floatplane to operate aboard the Imperial Navy's warships. It happened after the German aircraft Hansa Brandenburg W-33, stopped meet and it had to be replaced by a more modern aircraft (I will remind you that the Brandenburgs got to Japan as part of repairs and were manufactured there). The new aircraft was to complement the relatively successful and in large numbers produced aircraft on board ships Yokosho E1Y.
The Nakajima Hikoki K. K. factory responded with a project by engineer Takeo Yoshida. The designed aircraft was a biplane of wooden construction covered with canvas, the landing gear consisted of two floats and the propulsion was to provide Mitsubishi with a license produced by Hispano-Suiza engine with an output of 340 horsepower.
The prototype took part in a competition in 1925, in which it competed with the prototypes of aircraft of two competing factories - Aichi Tonkei Denki participated with a stand Mi-Go and Naval Arsenal in Yokosuka entered the aircraft Tatsu- Go. Competing aircraft were quite similar - they were low-flying aircraft. The competition was eventually won by the Nakajima biplane, designated by the Navy as the "Naval float reconnaissance aircraft type 15 model 1" or E2N1 model 1 for short.
Serial production was delayed, began in May 1927 and did not last a full year. From the first half of 1928, only a slightly different version of the E2N2 model 2 was produced, both versions had the same performance. Nakajima Hikoki K. K. ceased production in 1929, by which time it had delivered a total of fifty E2N aircraft (including three prototypes). Production then continued at the Kawanishi Kikoki K. K. factory, where a total of thirty E2N2 model 2 aircraft were completed by 1930.
Sources used:
Robert C. Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe, Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941, Annapolis, 1990, Putnam Aeronautical Books, pp. 223–224, ISBN 0 85177 840 2.
Tadeusz Januszewski and Kryzysztof Zalewski, Japońskie samoloty marynarski 1912-1945, part 1., Lampart, year 2000, ISBN: 83-86776-50-1.
Famous Airplanes of the World, Imperial Japanese Navy Reconnaissance, No. 47, Bunrindo Co. Ltd., year 1994/7, ISBN4-89319-044-X
www.ne.jp
http://avia.ltd.ee/air/japan/nakajima_e2n.php
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Nakajima E2N1 Type 15 Model 1
Reconnaissance aircraft manufactured since May 1927
Nakajima E2N2 Type 15 Model 2
Version created after the introduction of minor improvements in production
A total of 80 aircraft were built between 1925 and 1930
Brief History:
In 1925, Kaigun Koku Hombu announced a competition for a reconnaissance floatplane to operate aboard the Imperial Navy's warships. It happened after the German aircraft Hansa Brandenburg W-33, stopped meet and it had to be replaced by a more modern aircraft (I will remind you that the Brandenburgs got to Japan as part of repairs and were manufactured there). The new aircraft was to complement the relatively successful and in large numbers produced aircraft on board ships Yokosho E1Y.
The Nakajima Hikoki K. K. factory responded with a project by engineer Takeo Yoshida. The designed aircraft was a biplane of wooden construction covered with canvas, the landing gear consisted of two floats and the propulsion was to provide Mitsubishi with a license produced by Hispano-Suiza engine with an output of 340 horsepower.
The prototype took part in a competition in 1925, in which it competed with the prototypes of aircraft of two competing factories - Aichi Tonkei Denki participated with a stand Mi-Go and Naval Arsenal in Yokosuka entered the aircraft Tatsu- Go. Competing aircraft were quite similar - they were low-flying aircraft. The competition was eventually won by the Nakajima biplane, designated by the Navy as the "Naval float reconnaissance aircraft type 15 model 1" or E2N1 model 1 for short.
Serial production was delayed, began in May 1927 and did not last a full year. From the first half of 1928, only a slightly different version of the E2N2 model 2 was produced, both versions had the same performance. Nakajima Hikoki K. K. ceased production in 1929, by which time it had delivered a total of fifty E2N aircraft (including three prototypes). Production then continued at the Kawanishi Kikoki K. K. factory, where a total of thirty E2N2 model 2 aircraft were completed by 1930.
Sources used:
Robert C. Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe, Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941, Annapolis, 1990, Putnam Aeronautical Books, pp. 223–224, ISBN 0 85177 840 2.
Tadeusz Januszewski and Kryzysztof Zalewski, Japońskie samoloty marynarski 1912-1945, part 1., Lampart, year 2000, ISBN: 83-86776-50-1.
Famous Airplanes of the World, Imperial Japanese Navy Reconnaissance, No. 47, Bunrindo Co. Ltd., year 1994/7, ISBN4-89319-044-X
www.ne.jp
http://avia.ltd.ee/air/japan/nakajima_e2n.php
author's archive