Video Footage Japanese WWII Autogiro Testing Kellett KD-1A, Kayaba Ka-1a, Ka-2

[barnstorm2]

Chuck Beaty sent me some FANTASTIC historical video footage of Japanese Military Autogiro testing.

Footage appears to include:

Kellett KD-1A operating off of the Akitsu Maru Carrier in the Sea of Japan

Kayaba Ka-1a flight testing

Kayaba Ka-2 Flight Testing

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Thanks!

Link to the video:

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[WHY]

Great video footage , thanks Chuck and Tim.

Tony

[barnstorm2]

Thanks Tony!

A good companion to this video clip is:

Pages 207-210 in Chapter 10, The Autogiro Goes to War: The Axis

in

From Autogiro to Gyroplane,
The Amazing Survival of an Aviation Technology
by Bruce Charnov

Some of these little puppies were fitted with 132-pound depth charges for submarine hunting duties....


About 95 Japanese Autogiros were produced, all variants of the Kellett. One was fitted with experimental rocket-powered rotor blades. Small solid-fuel rockets at the rotor tips over-speed the rotors for jump-takeoffs.

These variants are not in the movie but maybe someday some photos could show up.

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[Gyropilot007]

Great video!! Certainly worth the time it takes to download. I love watching these older gyros.

Thanks Tim and Chuck!

[barnstorm2]

Thanks!

I have uploaded a lower-quality version to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EFt7cLCRSY

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[C. Beaty]

Here are some photos of an Autogiro under construction at the Kayaba works.

Rotorblade assembly is inverted; bottom side up. The wood leading edge fairing would have enclosed a metal bar for chordwise balance.

The Jacobs engine was license built by Tokyo Gasu Denki.

The only virtue of my $39 scanner is that it was $39.

[Heron]

Thanks O´Connor San!
Heron