Kawasaki Kokuku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha , Kobe

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In the year August 1929 company Kawasaki Kokuki K. To. (hereinafter Kawasaki) with the consent and mandate of the ministry of communication has launched negotiations with representatives of the company Dornier of purchase and any license the construction of a Very commercially successful flying boat Dornier do J "Wal". The japanese had a condition that the aircraft will be powered by engines Kawasaki-BMW VI, these engines started motorářské department of the company Kawasaki is licensed to produce. For Dorniera it was no problem, because the flying boats of Wal could be driven by about five types of engines. Another japanese requirement was the adjustment of the cabin so that it can carry six passengers and in the rear of the space was for cargo. Adjustments are outwardly manifested by changing the windows and the flying boat was completed in January 1930 in an Italian factory Contruizone Meccaniche Astronautiche With.And., abbreviated CMASA in Marina di Pisa, under the supervision of a japanese engineer Goroku Moro representing the company Kawasaki.
In the disassembled state the aircraft was transported to Japan, where he was a factory Kawasaki built and after post-control, the aviation authority has been put into operation at the company Nihon Koku To. To. Yuso. Aircraft in operation showed reliability and excellent performance, and among other things he flew on the route Osaka – Fukuoka and Fukuoka and Shanghai. On the basis of the success of Nihon Koku To. To. Yuso ordered at Kawasaki construction of the other two Walů.
Kawasaki ordered in Italy the construction of the vast majority of the parts and then proceeded to their construction. The first japanese Wal was completed in October and the second in November 1930. Both in Japan built Waly had higher performances than what amounted to the prototype. Both planes are different, one of them had cabins for the crew with a cabin for passengers, while the other had the cabin crew on the bow of the aeroplane in front of the cabin for the passengers. Company Nihon Koku To. To. Yuso had high hopes for their commercially successful operation among the japanese Fukuokou chinese Shanghai, unfortunately, relations between Japan and China deteriorated so much that civilian flights
have been completed. Seaplanes were then subsequently used only for flights over the inland sea, again, between Osaka and Fukuokou, on these short lines, however, ekonomičtěji flew transport aircraft Fokker Super Universal and Fokker F.VII. Waly were from this service cancelled in February 1932, when one of them disintegrated in the air above the Jawatou (island of Kyushu). Other flying boats Wal already in Japan built were not.