Mitsubishi MU-2B

Mitsubishi MU-2B

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The following text from Aviation Week is not unique to the aircraft pictured:
09/30/1963. Prototype Mitsubishi MU-2 turboprop executive aircraft, which will be manufactured and marketed in the USA by Mooney Aircraft Inc., of Kerrville, Texas, made its first flight at the Nagoya Aircraft Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan, earlier this month. Note: the prototype had the two turboprop engines suspended from the wing from pylons.
11/22/1965. Acceleration of the aircraft is rapid when power is applied and the location of the cabin near the ground emphasizes this tendency. Considerable back pressure on the control wheel is necessary to get then MU-2B off the ground and this must be followed immediately by an almost equally stiff forward motion to keep the aircraft from climbing at too steep an angle for passenger comfort.


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The following text from Aviation Week is not unique to the aircraft pictured: 09/30/1963. Prototype Mitsubishi MU-2 turboprop executive aircraft, which will be manufactured and marketed in the USA by Mooney Aircraft Inc., of Kerrville, Texas, made its first flight at the Nagoya Aircraft Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan, earlier this month. Note: the prototype had the two turboprop engines suspended from the wing from pylons. 11/22/1965. Acceleration of the aircraft is rapid when power is applied and the location of the cabin near the ground emphasizes this tendency. Considerable back pressure on the control wheel is necessary to get then MU-2B off the ground and this must be followed immediately by an almost equally stiff forward motion to keep the aircraft from climbing at too steep an angle for passenger comfort.