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The Mitsubishi F1M (Allied reporting name "Pete") is a Japanese reconnaissance floatplane of World War II. It was the last biplane type of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with 944 built between 1936 and 1944. The Navy designation was "Type Zero Observation Seaplane" (零式水上観測機).
In December 1941, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, proposed constructing a large fleet of submarine aircraft carriers (also designated STo or sen-toku — special submarine) whose purpose was to mount aerial attacks against American coastal cities.
The Aichi E13A (Allied reporting name: "Jake") is a long-range reconnaissance seaplane used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 1941 to 1945. Numerically the most important floatplane of the IJN, it could carry a crew of three and a bombload of 250 kg (550 lb).
4 cze 2022 · The Mitsubishi F1M was the last Imperial Japanese Navy biplane floatplane. It was developed and fiest flew in June 1936 but only introduced from 1941, active until 1945 as catapult-launched reconnaissance float plane for recce and gunnery spotting, but it took many other roles.
Numerically the most important of all Japanese float seaplanes during World War II, the Aichi E13A monoplane (of which 1,418 were produced) originated in a naval staff specification issued to Aichi, Kawanishi and Nakajima in 1937 for a three-seat reconnaissance seaplane to replace the six-year-old Kawanishi E7K2 float biplane.
The N1K1 Kyofu was the float plane fighter, from which the Kawanishi N1K1-J fighter was developed. The Kyofu (‘Mighty Wind’) was extremely advanced in design, fast and powerfully armed. It could have become a formidable combat aircraft, but the course of the war eliminated the role for which it had been designed.
Codenamed 'Pete' by the Allies, FlM2s were present at the Battle of Midway, two aircraft being launched from the battleship Kirishima (but being lost when the Japanese scuttled the sorely-crippled ship at the end of the Battle of the Solomons).
