Kyushu J7W Shinden

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The Kyushu J7W Shinden (“Magnificent Lightning”) was a pusher prop fighter with canard wings developed at the end of the war to defend the Japanese homeland against B29 raids. Only two prototypes were built and flew on the two days that the atomic bombs were dropped. It was also designed to take a jet engine when that technology was developed. Hot on it’s tail is a Bearcat which is one of the allied planes it would have come up against.