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Nakajima A2N2 - photos on carrier?


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There is a FineMolds kit, but a few photos of subject, and only one on carrier. That one

Nakajima_A2N2.jpg

as said has taken on Kaga. AC is "Houkoku-14", one of the first A2N2 built and it seems it not belongs to Kaga air group. The very interesting thing on this photo is something seen near the tail skid. What is that black thing? In Avions magazine, where this picture has been published in 1998, stated that this is the arresting hook. Its strange to see arresting hook attached to tail skid, and more strangely to see drawings in the same volume, where A2N2 shown with "normal" hook under fuselage. But there is no such on photo of "Houkoku-14"!

Additional search for A2N2 and A2N1 images (that two versions hardly disthindushed one from another) shows no arresting hook arrangment under fuselage - no even traces (like attaching points) of it! Of course, japanese have a custom to detach hooks from a/c when not on carrier - but there are no other photos of A2N2 on carriers, so the question of arresting hook on that particular model stays open.

A2N3 (late version clearly destingushed for V on upper wing) probably have arresting hook - there are photos where seen something like a hardpoint for it under fuselage, but how about A2N2?

The answer may lie in Japanese boook Modelart 510 Camouflage and markings of IJN fighters (second edition) or in french book "Samurais and carriers" (or like that), but I never sow any...

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