{"id":8405587,"date":"2026-08-01T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/nakajima-kikka-japan-first-jet-1945\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:12:51","slug":"nakajima-kikka-japan-first-jet-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/nakajima-kikka-japan-first-jet-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"El primer avi\u00f3n a reacci\u00f3n de Jap\u00f3n vol\u00f3 con d\u00edas de retraso."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>On the morning of 7 August 1945 &mdash; the day after Hiroshima &mdash; a small, silver twin-jet lifted off the runway at Kisarazu Naval Air Base. For about twenty minutes, Lieutenant Commander Susumu Takaoka flew Japan&rsquo;s first jet aircraft, the Nakajima Kikka, or &ldquo;Orange Blossom.&rdquo; It handled well. The only real worry was how long it took to get airborne.<\/p><p>There would be no glory. Four days later a second flight ended in a botched, rocket-assisted takeoff and a slide toward Tokyo Bay. Days after that, Japan surrendered. The Kikka had flown into history with almost nothing left to fly for.<\/p><p>It is often mislabelled a copy of the German <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/aeronave\/messerschmitt-me-262\/\">Yo 262<\/a>. It was not. The Kikka was inspired by reports of the German jet, but it was an independent, smaller Japanese design &mdash; a machine racing a war it could never catch.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px;color:#222\">Datos r\u00e1pidos<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Tipo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Twin-jet attack aircraft \/ tactical bomber<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Primer vuelo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">7 August 1945, Kisarazu Naval Air Base; pilot Lt Cdr Susumu Takaoka<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Motores<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">2 &times; Ishikawajima Ne-20 axial turbojets, about 475 kgf each<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Origen<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Imperial Japanese Navy requirement, 1944, after reports of the German Me 262<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Wings<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Folding, to hide the jets in tunnels and caves<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Construido<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">One prototype flew; a second was nearly complete; about 23 airframes under construction<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Second flight<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">11 August 1945 &mdash; aborted takeoff after a rocket-boost mishap<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 12px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Sobrevivientes<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Two airframes preserved by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How Japan Learned of the Jet Age<\/h2><p>When Germany began flight-testing the Me 262, Japan&rsquo;s air attach&eacute; in Berlin watched several trials and sent home enthusiastic reports. Those reports eventually pushed the Imperial Japanese Navy, in September 1944, to order Nakajima to build a jet-powered attack aircraft broadly similar in layout to the German fighter.<\/p><p>The requirements reflected a nation on the defensive: a heavy bomb load, folding wings so the jets could be hidden in tunnels and shelters, and construction simple enough for unskilled labour. Early in its life the design was even conceived for one-way special-attack missions.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1703834195  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/nakajima-kikka-captured-norfolk-1949.jpg\" alt=\"Captured Nakajima Kikka at NAS Norfolk, 1949\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A captured Kikka in storage at Naval Air Station Norfolk, 1949. U.S. Navy photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Inspired by the Me 262, Not Copied<\/h2><p>Nakajima&rsquo;s engineers Kenichi Matsumura and Kazuo Ohno produced an aircraft that, in the Smithsonian&rsquo;s words, bore only a superficial resemblance to the German fighter. The Kikka was noticeably smaller, with straight wings instead of the Me 262&rsquo;s slight sweep, and none of the German jet&rsquo;s distinctive triangular fuselage cross-section.<\/p><p>It was all-metal apart from fabric-covered control surfaces, with the engines slung in underwing pods to make them easy to swap. To save time, the main landing gear was borrowed from an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/aeronave\/a6m-zero\/\">A6M Zero<\/a> and the nosewheel from a bomber&rsquo;s tailwheel. This was a distinct, simpler machine &mdash; parallel evolution, not plagiarism.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ntYSsiBnPM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px\">A concise history of the Kikka and why it arrived too late.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Ne-20 Engine, Built From Scraps<\/h2><p>The jet&rsquo;s heart was the Ishikawajima Ne-20, Japan&rsquo;s first turbojet. It was loosely derived from Germany&rsquo;s BMW 003 axial-flow engine &mdash; but Japan never received a full set of plans. A submarine carrying German engines, tooling and blueprints vanished at sea.<\/p><p>Only because one returning engineer travelled on a separate submarine, carrying his personal notes and a handful of photographs, did Japan have anything to work from. From little more than those photos and a single cutaway drawing, the Naval Technical Arsenal developed the Ne-20, giving roughly 475 kilograms of thrust. Scarce high-strength alloys meant the turbine blades lasted only a few hours &mdash; enough for testing, not for a sustained war.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=2076409365  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/kugisho-ne-20-turbojet.jpg\" alt=\"Ishikawajima Ne-20 turbojet\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Ishikawajima Ne-20, Japan&rsquo;s first turbojet, reverse-engineered from limited German data. Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two Flights, and Then the War Ended<\/h2><p>The first prototype began ground running in June 1945, then moved to Kisarazu. Takaoka&rsquo;s maiden flight on 7 August went smoothly. For the second attempt on 11 August, rocket boosters were fitted to shorten the takeoff run &mdash; and the pilot was uneasy about the angle at which they were mounted.<\/p><p>Seconds after the rockets fired, the nose pitched sharply up; when they burned out, the aircraft sank, Takaoka aborted, and it slid off the runway toward the water, tearing off its landing gear. Before it could be repaired, Japan surrendered. Only one Kikka ever flew.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ikraFDwxGY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px\">The doomed final test flight of the Kikka.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;the last known example of a World War II Japanese jet aircraft and the only Japanese jet to takeoff under its own power.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Russell Lee<\/strong> &mdash; Curator, National Air and Space Museum (2016)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Captured, Studied, and Preserved<\/h2><p>When the war ended, a second prototype was nearly finished and around 23 airframes stood in various stages of construction. Several airframes and engines were shipped to the United States for study. Today two Kikka airframes survive with the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Air and Space Museum &mdash; one at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the other in storage.<\/p><p>It is the last known example of a Japanese wartime jet, and the only one to have taken off under its own power &mdash; a footnote that flew four days too late to be anything more.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Although the Kikka resembles the Me 262 in layout and shape, the German jet is actually considerably larger.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Russell Lee<\/strong> &mdash; Curator, National Air and Space Museum (2016)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQcYCQ-NZTc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#777;font-style:italic;text-align:center;margin-top:-12px\">Overview of the Kikka&rsquo;s origins and its link to the Me 262.<\/p><p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#666;font-style:italic;margin-top:20px\">Sources: Wikipedia (Nakajima Kikka; Ishikawajima Ne-20); Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Russell Lee, 2016).<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Publicaciones relacionadas<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/pushed-by-angels-the-me-262s-doomed-revolution\/\">Pushed by Angels: The Me 262&rsquo;s Doomed Revolution<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/messerschmitt-me-163-komet-rocket-fighter\/\">El caza cohete que disolvi\u00f3 a sus pilotos<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/el-mito-del-ala-volante-horten-ho-229\/\">El ala volante de Hitler y el mito del sigilo<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Nakajima Kikka fue el primer avi\u00f3n a reacci\u00f3n de Jap\u00f3n, cuyo primer vuelo tuvo lugar el 7 de agosto de 1945. Inspirado en el Me 262, pero con un dise\u00f1o independiente que lleg\u00f3 con varios d\u00edas de retraso.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8405236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[666,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8405587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-and-legends","category-military-aviation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nakajima Kikka: Japan\u2019s First Jet, Days Too Late<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nakajima Kikka was Japan\u2019s first jet, first flown 7 August 1945 \u2014 inspired by the Me 262 but an independent design that came too late.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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