chinese dive bomber Yangcheng Kesai, last of the first Indigenous chinese aircraft family (1934)

[CaID 8,992]

 

i would like to suggest one of the less know indigenous plane of China during WW2. the Yangcheng Kesai (in chinese 羊城可塞)

 

 

the history of the plane is relatively uncommon in comparison to the development of the planes from the other country. China had during the Interwar era a rather limited knowledge, skills and manufacturing capacity to produce planes. been a unstable country at that time, china was a waste land ruled by a dozen provincial government who's struggle to control each other.

 

while the provincial government was often more of warlord than actual part of a government, the most powerful of them was having their own army and air-forces. the Guangdong Revolutionary Government was one of them controlling one of the most important province of china. the Guangdong Revolutionary Government was relatively well founding well the aircraft repair plant, was more capable to import rather modern material who could be used in internal fight against the different fraction of china (mostly the communist). due to the large variety of planes in china, there was a need to built up a few factory capable to repair and maintain the planes in flight condition. it was how one of them, the Guangdong Aircraft Repair Factory, was born. it was with the return of Menongan in 1927, a Chinese engineer who went to study in USA, that the ambitious Yangcheng program was established. this program was having for purpose to built new planes from whatever spare part they had in hand. the Yangcheng was the first large scale domestic plane family of china, with nearly 60 planes built in different variants from 1928 to 1936, the first was the Yangcheng No. 51 and the last was the Yangcheng Kesai  No.108

 

it was in 1934 that the Yangcheng Kesai was born. 6 planes was built at the same time with the same parts. they was a bit out-dated for a 1934 planes but still showing performance as good as the average planes in services in china at that time. the Yangcheng Kesai was based on the O2U-1D who's part was in hand but not all of them to allow assembly of a identical plane. the plane still have the same engine, but the fuselage, the stabilizer fin and the wings was locally made by the Chinese worker. initially supposed to be a a mono-plane,  the plane was soon converted into a biplane and toke the air in the hand of Guo Hanting, deputy captain of the 3rd Squadron of the Air Force. he did a test flight near Tianhe Airport. during a dive, the wing broke off due to the excessive speed during a stiff dive and the pilot had to parachute. that was only after the failed test flight that the planes was converted into biplanes. a single fix machine-gun was installed on the upper wing and the bomb rack was added making it a light bomber. the second test flight was successful, they made a long trip of 480 km radius making it nearly reach his maximal range with a cruise speed of 161 km/h. the planes was well controlled, even in dive but the plane was not very maneuverable, a lot less flexible that the foreign planes.

the development of the Yangscheng family was halted in 1936 in favor of funding the FuHsing family, who was another indigenous plane built by china.

 

the Yangcheng Kesai service is rather unknown in details. what it is know was the Guangdong Revolutionary Government did used it in service, they used them as bomber and reconnaissance planes. but they disappeared in history, it might be amounts of the O2U fleet as the planes was considered as a relative planes and like the Zhong 28, the Chinese often identify the planes in name of the planes they are based from in the inventory. the fate of the 6 planes are unknown, might be lost in battle or in crash.

 

 

General characteristics

• Crew: Two
• Length: 7.46 m
• Wingspan: 10.52 m
• Height: 3.08 m
• Empty weight: 1062 kg
• Max takeoff weight: 1649 kg
• Powerplant: 1 × Pratt Whitney R-1340"Wasp star 9-cylinder air-cooled piston engine, single 425 horsepower

Performance

• Maximum speed: 241 km/h
• Range: 978 km
• Service ceiling: 5,700 m
• Power/mass: 0.13lb/hp (0.21 kW/kg)

Armament

• Guns: 2x .30 cal (7.62 mm) Browning machine guns, one forward firing in upper wing and 1x on a trainable mount in rear cockpit
• Bombs: 4x 116 lb (53 kg) or 10 30 lb (14 kg) bombs under lower wings

 

 

source

https://www.sohu.com/a/332662637_628944

https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv8016081

https://kknews.cc/history/j8eeme.html

http://www.flyingtiger-cacw.com/gb_673.htm

Edited August 22, 2021 by CaID

[super_cacti 1,071]

Open for discussion 

[AspandaIV 375]

+1

This would be a welcome addition to the Chinese TT

[Milocat 4,848]

+1 from me for sure, this is a must-have for the Chinese tree and it needs to be a standard vehicle.

[Z3r0_ 4,127]

It's an indigenous aircraft, something that the Chinese tree is sorely lacking in at the lower tiers.

[Redmisty 828]

可塞 Kesai is the transliteration of corsair.

[redpipola 49]

China's PO-2 Basically lmao, +1

[CaID 8,992]

5 hours ago, redpipola said:

China's PO-2 Basically lmao, +1

well, china did used the PO-2 as well.

[Kingtiez@live 606]

+1 PO-2s cousin 

Edited February 1, 2022 by Kingtiez@live

[hienapunk 1,064]

This thing could actually be a reservist attacker with that bomb load. Probably the best low tier option for a main tree plane.

[CaID 8,992]

On 05/06/2022 at 18:30, hienapunk said:

This thing could actually be a reservist attacker with that bomb load. Probably the best low tier option for a main tree plane.

Amounst of the Indigenous plane. there is a few good option, some of which are much better

Like the Zhong 28Yi

this aircraft was a frankensplane built with spare part of I-15 that was intended for the maintenance of the planes, Part of the Hawk III who was locally built and some improvement like Flaps. China wasn't allow to produce the I-15 as part of the agreement from Russia to provide hundreds of aircraft. but china did anyway. they produced the plane in secret and most pilots never noticed the plane wasn't a I-15

 

FuHsing AP-1

this plane was a bad 2-sit version of the I-15 designed by a bad Polikarpov's engineer who sold some real blueprint of the I-15 and drawn his own version to make up the missing blueprint. the plane was not bed in reconnaissance, and could carry some armament, but it wasn't nothing as good as the I-15.

The Northrop Gamma E4

this plane was a modified License produced ground attacker. the plane was fully built by Camco which was a chinese factory and division of Curtiss.

 

But there is also some planes that is pretty unique to china. even if they are import. China remain the main used, and in most case the only user.

 

Armstrong Whitworth A.W.16

 

Hawk II

 

BT-32

 

Bellanca 28-90B

 

Hawk 75A-5

 

Hawk 75H

 

Hawk 75M

 

Hawk 75 Q

Edited July 10, 2022 by CaID

[Borotovas 4,500]

+1

[redpipola 49]

How the heck has this not been passed to developers? 

[CokeSpray 7,272]

Suggestion passed to the developers for consideration.