Click to open image viewer. Japan's J7W1 Shinden was the only World War II aircraft of canard configuration that any combatant ordered into production. Canard is a French term. The original meaning is ...
Eighty years ago today, on August 3, 1945, the Kyushu J7W Shinden-translated as Magnificent Lightning-took to the skies for the first time. Developed late in World War II, the Shinden was one of the ...