Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Kawasaki Ki-78 Ken-3 Video discovered!!!

Footage of the Kawasaki Ki-78 (Ken3) has been unearthed and is absolutely amazing!
Here's the link for the video and the story of the discovery.
Most probably the pilot is Kataoka who did the reccord flight reaching 699.9km/h.
Special thanks to Gary Wenko for the heads-up.
Some stills below.

9 comments:

Honza78 said...

Great!

Dizzyfugu said...

Great find, thanks a lot for posting this!

D. Chouinard said...

That is amazing! So glad this was saved!

Jacob said...


Amazing!! great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Jacob said...


Fascinating discovery!
Thanks for sharing

Baronvonrob said...

Incredible footage indeed ...any ideas about the coloring of "Mr.Ken" ?..main body, propeller hub and blades etc.

Danilo said...

Great finding. Is the Ken in the grey livery?

R. Vieira said...

Amazing find!! This is really great. I was also wondering about the color...

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting this and the other recent videos.
Out of interest, Platz are reissuing their 1/72nd scale model of Ki-78 with updated decals. It's quite expensive though, price is over ¥7000.