More technical information: https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/masaaki-iinuma/ https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/masaaki-iinuma/ And a lovely illustrat

More technical information: https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/masaaki-iinuma/ https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/masaaki-iinuma/ And a lovely illustration of the route, curiously absent from both articles, can be found here: https://www.oldtokyo.com/tokyo-london-world-record-flight-1937/ https://www.oldtokyo.com/tokyo-london-world-record-flight-19... Mitsubishi, of course, also made a famous long-range fighter. Per Chuck Hawks: > Not only could the Zero out fight any Allied fighter, it also out-ranged them. Many people do not realize that the Zero was the world's first long range escort fighter. Zeros flew long range bomber escort missions during the war in China, before the Pacific war even began. If the Germans had the long range A6M2 Zero instead of the short range Bf 109E, the outcome of the Battle of Britain might have been very different. https://www.chuckhawks.com/best_fighter_planes.htm https://www.chuckhawks.com/best_fighter_planes.htm