Talk:Mitsubishi F1M

According to these photos this aircraft is ready for flying only after being left 50 years under water 8-)

Engine?

It says 'the F1M1 was built with the 830hp Nakajima Hikari 9 cylinder radial", but then in the infobox it says that it has a 875hp Mitsubishi Zuisei 14 cylinder twin-row radial engine of 875hp. These are quite different engines, and a plane switching from a Hikari to a narrow-diameter Zuisei would need a certain amount of alteration in the cowling, etc. Does this mean the four F1M1 prototypes were given Hikari engines, while the F1M2 and all the other production aircraft were given the more powerful and modern Zuisei? This would fit in with what happened to a number of other Japanese aircraft of the era. If this is the case, it should be clearer that most of the aircraft were NOT built with Hikari engines, which is the first thing a reader will assume when they read the sentence saying that "the F1M1 was built with the Hikari engine", in the absence of anything to make them think otherwise. Wikipedia article reading shouldn't be about having the proper deductive skills and being observant enough to glean out all the information that ISN'T stated in between all the strangely random facts that seem to make the cut. 70.109.132.119 (talk) 05:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

The Hikari was only used by the F1M1, and was one of the considerable package of changes (also new wings, bigger tail) made to turn the aircraft into something that met the IJN's needs. It looks like someone started to write about the development of the aircraft and then run out of steam - I'll see if I can expand it a bit.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:34, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Surviving examples

Are there any surviving examples of this aircraft? PrussianOwl (talk) 11:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)