WI: The Japanese create the first successful airplane?

Masky

Masky

So I have been researching this a while and apparently there was a Japanese aviation pioneer and Imperial Japanese Army veteran named Chūhachi Ninomiya who designed two fixed-wing, heavier-than-air crafts, one in 1891 and 1893. What sort of repercussions would be made if either of these crafts resulted in successful long flights and were even tested or put to use in later First Sino-Japanese War or Russo-Japanese War?
 

TFSmith121

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Masky said:
So I have been researching this a while and apparently there was a Japanese aviation pioneer and Imperial Japanese Army veteran named Chūhachi Ninomiya who designed two fixed-wing, heavier-than-air crafts, one in 1891 and 1893. What sort of repercussions would be made if either of these crafts resulted in successful long flights and were even tested or put to use in later First Sino-Japanese War or Russo-Japanese War?
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altamiro

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At that point in time Japan did not have sufficient excess industrial capacity to produce more than a few prototypes. Similar to the first large bomber aircraft being built by Russians, it has very little impact except by being copied and implemented on larger scale by other countries with larger and more flexible industrial capabilities. Possibly a few Japanese technical terms find their way into the technical lingo of aircraft construction.
 
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