JAS Jottings
The Quarterly Magazine of the Japanese Aviation SIG of IPMS-UK Vol. 8, No. 4

Reviewed by Jim Schubert

Here's another scholarly aggregation, in 33 pages, of fascinating information on aviation matters of the Japanese persuasion graced by a very nice perspective drawing of an Aichi E13A1 "JAKE" on the cover. The contents include:

  • JNAF Reconnaissance Seaplane Evolution, Pt.3 This part is of especial interest to me as I have been working, in a very desultory manner, on a monograph on the JAKE for many years now. Maybe some year it'll be finished and published – maybe. this article also gets into the mystery of the Kawanishi E15K2 "NORM", on which Bill Devins and I have done a fair bit of research. This material, on NORM, was published in the, now defunct, Asahi Journal of the, equally defunct, IPMS-USA Japanese Information SIG and Chine Lines the, very much alive, journal of the IPMS-USA Seaplane SIG.

  • A performance Comparison of Allied and Japanese Fighter Aircraft 1943-5, Pt. 3

  • Crossing the Pacific, Pt. 1

  • Japanese Aero Engines 1910-1945, Pt.5

  • A to Z of Japanese Imported Foreign Aircraft, Pt. 13

  • The Japanese Civil Aircraft Registers, Pt. 2

  • Book Briefing

  • Index of Vol. 8

  • MYRT Colour Photos, in anticipation of Hasegawa's rumoured future release of a new 1:48 scale MYRT.

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