Takeo Doi was a Japanese aircraft designer. He designed many World War II fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. His most important work was the "Army Type 3 Fighter", a.k.a. K
A Kawasaki Ki-100 on display in the RAF Museum at Hendon
Kawasaki Ki-45 "Toryu". Doi designed not only the single-engine aircraft but also multi-engine ones.
NAMC YS-11 operated by Japan Air Commuter (JAC). YS-11 is the only successful commercial aircraft made by Japanese manufacture. Doi joined the project as a chief designer in charge of aeronautical equipment.
Doi Takeo
Kawasaki Ki-45
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The Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryū is a two-seat, twin-engine heavy fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. The army gave it the designation "Type 2 Two-Seat Fighter"; the Allied reporting n
Takeo Doi (aircraft designer)
…Kawasaki Ki-10 (Army Type 95 Fighter) Kawasaki Ki-45 "Toryu" (Army Type 2 Two-seat Fighter) Kawasaki Ki-48 (Army Type 99 Bomber…
Kawasaki Ki-45 Kai C; Army Type 2 two-seat fighter Model C of the 53rd Hiko Sentai
The fuselage of the sole surviving Ki-45 Kai C, on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, with a Schräge Musik-type vertical cannon mount behind the cockpit
Abandoned Ki-45s of the 71st Dokuritsu Hiko Chutai at Kallang Airfield, Singapore, in September 1945.