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Muffin Time – Metro Hobbies

In 1935, the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered Mitsubishi and Nakajima to build a prototype aircraft called the Ju-Shi Carrier Attack Aircraft. The Navy's requirements were far more stringent than those of the Type 96 carrier-based attack aircraft, which had just been adopted at the time, and Nakajima, which received the request to build a prototype, had been defeated by Mitsubishi in competitions for all major naval aircraft models, so it put its entire company on the line and took on the development. The Type 97 carrier-based attack aircraft, incorporating many innovative features, was the first low-wing monoplane carrier-based attack aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy with an all-metal monocoque structure. It adopted revolutionary hydraulic retractable main landing gear, and the fuselage width was narrowest near the cockpit for a three-seater aircraft.The adoption of upward-folding main wings shortened the overall width, allowing