Chief Designer Tells of Challenges, Progress in XP-1, C-X Programs

Credit: KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Masayuki Kubo is in an enviable position for a Japanese aircraft engineer—and an unenviable one. He has been lucky enough to be chosen as Kawasaki’s chief designer in the program that has broken a three-decade drought in the development of large Japanese aircraft. But he has been perhaps too lucky...

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