Float Plane, E14Y Glen sub launcher

[birder]

My first S+P design build, this one jumped into the to do list before completing my last one....
The aircraft was a small scout plane, and the only Japanese aircraft to bomb the mainland USA..sub launched, apparently this aircraft with a trained crew could be removed from the sub hanger tube, assembled and launched within 10 minutes. A remarkable engineering feat, no other nation accomplished such feat and entered it in production.
This one has a really long story, but oddly I have a connection with this plane not only in name! (one "n" even ha). I was given an artifact found many years ago on Kwajalein by a diver from the ship Akibasan Maru, as I was reading about this there is an awesome story of finding this aircraft in it's hold in the 1960's but not identified until quite recently as the last examples of this aircraft
known to exist.
The model is from Rata's recolor but recolored again and changes made but most is straight from Bruno's little design! Cool. I made my own struts with rolled paper and redid the floats a bit to allow enlarging.
I meant to make it 1/48 but it is smaller it turns out, more like 1/55 math issue it appears...

[Don Boose]

Outstanding rescale, recolor, and build, Glen!

Fascinating back story.

Generally speaking, Bruno's 1/100 aircraft seem to scale up well.

Don

[SCEtoAUX]

Nice model.
Weren't the Japanese planning on bombing the Panama Canal with planes like that?

[birder]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Outstanding rescale, recolor, and build, Glen!

Fascinating back story.

Generally speaking, Bruno's 1/100 aircraft seem to scale up well.

Don

Thank you Don sir, there is a cool site with more detail and pictures too,


The WW2 Pacific Treasures of Kwajalein Lagoon by Dan Farnham PART 2 – Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, the only man who has bombed the continental US and the story of the E14Y1 floatplanes found in a shipwreck – WW2Wrecks.com

[Don Boose]

Doug - Aichi M6A Seiran was the Panama Canal bomber. In-line engine and considerably larger.

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aichi_.../File:M6A1.jpg

Glen - Great additional info! You are definitely the man for anything hidden in the Kwajalein lagoon.

Don

[SCEtoAUX]

OK, thanks Don. Imagine launching a plane like that from a sub.

[birder]

SCEtoAUX thank you there may have been but I don't know, this idea from the IJN was used as a scout due to pretty poor if any radar at the time, a problem that would contribute to other war losses by Japan. It was the Wild West of aviation days, and this plane was cool part of it.

[MacSongLi]

Amazing work Glen. Very nice detailed work.


Gary

[rifleman]

cracking model well done

[gomidefilho]

Fantastic work!!!