Landing Japanese Kawasaki P-1 patrol aircraft. The Kawasaki P-1 is a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft developed and manufactured by Kawasaki Aerospace Company. Unlike some other maritime patrol aircraft, this aircraft is not a modified version of a passenger aircraft. It further stands out in that this aircraft is the first operational aircraft in the world to use a fly-by-optics control system (advanced version of fly-by-wire). This picture was taken on 25 April 2014 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…