Kayaba Ku-2
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kayaba-ku-2-222-717291
title:
Kayaba Ku-2
text:
The Kayaba Ku-2 was a glider built in Japan in 1940 to investigate the possibilities of tailless aircraft. It was developed as part of an Imperial Japanese Army contract that had been offered to designer Hidemasa Kimura following the successful flights of his HK-1 tailless glider over the previous years. Developed with the help of the Kayaba Industry's chief designer Shigeki Naito, the Ku-2 had a swept wing with two vertical fins at the end of the wings. The Ku-2 flew 262 test flights between Oc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Japanese experimental glider
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayaba_Ku-2
date created:
2007-04-29T11:06:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T01:14:27Z
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