The Kyūshū Q1W Tōkai (東海 "Eastern Sea") was a land-based anti-submarine patrol bomber aircraft developed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II . The Allied reporting name was Lorna . Although similar in appearance to the German Junkers Ju 88 medium bomber, the Q1W was a much smaller aircraft with significantly different design details.
2-780: The Imperial Japanese Navy ordered development of the Kyūshū Q1W as the Navy Experimental 17-Shi Patrol Plane in September 1942 , and the first test flight took place in September 1943 . It entered service in January 1945 . The Q1W carried two low-power engines, allowing for long periods of low-speed flight. In same period Kyūshū built the K11W1 Shiragiku, a bomber training plane (also used in Kamikaze strikes) and
4-610: The Q3W1 Nankai ( South Sea ), a specialized antisubmarine version of the K11W. The latter was of all-wood construction and was destroyed during a landing accident on its first flight. Another specific anti-submarine airplane was the Mitsubishi Q2M 1 "Taiyō" (which was derived from Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryū "Peggy" Torpedo-bomber), but this did not progress beyond the preliminary design stage. Data from Japanese Aircraft of
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