Jiro Horikoshi
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Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aeronautical engineer. He was the chief engineer of several Japanese fighter aircraft designs used during World War II, most notably the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, as w
Horikoshi while a student at Tokyo Imperial University
Horikoshi (center) and members of the A6M1 design team, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (July 1937)
Horikoshi (October 1938)
Mitsubishi A5M
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The Mitsubishi A5M, formal Japanese Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Type 96 Carrier-based Fighter, experimental Navy designation Mitsubishi Navy Experimental 9-Shi Carrier Fighter, company designatio
Jiro Horikoshi
…never passed the prototype stage after some flight tests. However, lessons learned from this design led to the development of the far more successful Mitsubishi A5M (Allied codename "Claude") which entered mass production in 1936. In 1937, Horikoshi and his team at Mitsubishi were asked to design Prototype 12…
An A5M2b with arrestor hook and drop tank
First prototype with inverted gull wing
An A5M from the aircraft carrier Akagi in flight with an external fuel tank (1938 or 1939)
A5M4-K