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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

New Piglet Pusher....

Kazunori Ito made one for FS9. It needs a good FM, but is otherwise pretty good. Looking forward to Tim's!
 
wooohooo...always loved the Shinden...so does my Andorian :D

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Well, i'm definately in line for this one. I never really liked Ito-Sans version because he never uses Virtual cockpits but this should prove to be remarkable..:)..
 
pilottj said:
wooohooo...always loved the Shinden...so does my Andorian :D

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Looks like a scene out of an alternate version of that Star Trek Enterprise two-parter about an alien involvment in World War II. All we need is Archer running up to the aircraft to strap a bomb on it! :icon_lol:

Ken
 
very cool! i'm looking forward to this one! i'm wondering what doggy artifacts we might get this time?
i hope there will be something
 
That plane was always interesting to me. Looked very fast and maneuverable. I have read slightly different accounts but it seems only 2 were built with only 1 flying right around the time the two bombs were dropped.
It never flew again. Still an intriguing design. Glad Piglet is building a good one!

Anyone ever remember the old Aces over the Pacific? I used to love to fly that fighter in that game.
 
I made a J7W1 way back in the CFS2 days, with FSDS v1, and Aircraft Animator.
Remember those programs, and SCASAM?
 
Interesting plane indeed.
I'm with Lionheart on this one, I more or less discovered it in the Japanese anime movie Sky Crawlers, very impressive, an very sweet aircrafts :)
 
I flew Ito Sans version for a loooong time. I even did a paint kit for it and did several new paints as well as enhancing the originals. Warchild, I think this was one of the first models that Ito included a basic VC in as well. His (or whoever was doing them for him) VC's got better as they went along too, never getting to the point that any of todays models are, but much better than nothing at all and it made his later models even more endearing, despite the lack of a coherent FDE, lol.
 
Very nice work! I have been wanting to do a J7 myself for a LONG time but never found the time. I started the body, but never finished. I also want to do a P-56 to go with it! The Black Bullet looked really cool, but too bad its performance didnt match its looks.

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deathfromafar said:
That plane was always interesting to me. Looked very fast and maneuverable. I have read slightly different accounts but it seems only 2 were built with only 1 flying right around the time the two bombs were dropped.
It never flew again. Still an intriguing design. Glad Piglet is building a good one!

Anyone ever remember the old Aces over the Pacific? I used to love to fly that fighter in that game.
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I think you missed my post a bit before your's! :icon_lol:

I don't know how maneuverable that aircraft would have been. Perhaps fast due to lack of parasitic drag due to the relative lack of vertical stabilizers. But, that wing was so far aft of the plane's center of gravity, that I think it would have been a beast to fly! That wing had to function as both elevator and aileron since the canards look small relative the overall size of the aircraft. The other thing I noticed was the small wheels on the bottoms of the two vertical stabilizers. I can only imagine how easy it would have been to rotate in the flair, have those tiny wheels make initial contact on a hard landing, and damage the relatively weak looking stabilizers they were attached to.

Ken
 
GREAT plane, Piglet. Thanks. :jump:

Hey, please don't forget the first true canard fighter, the SAI Ambrosini S.S. 4, that made the
fisrst flight on March 1939, four years before than all the other planes in the category.
 
falcon409 said:
I flew Ito Sans version for a loooong time. I even did a paint kit for it and did several new paints as well as enhancing the originals. Warchild, I think this was one of the first models that Ito included a basic VC in as well. His (or whoever was doing them for him) VC's got better as they went along too, never getting to the point that any of todays models are, but much better than nothing at all and it made his later models even more endearing, despite the lack of a coherent FDE, lol.
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I wouldnt have any doubt that Ito-san produced the VC.. As much as i do not like his planes flight models, i have to give him credit in that, i've seen his name listed within the credits of a few different Anime. I still have one of his planes, and wish someone would make a model of it but its not likely, but then again, i simply woke up with a bad attitude today, so gods know eh??
 
Ken Stallings said:
I think you missed my post a bit before your's! :icon_lol:

I don't know how maneuverable that aircraft would have been. Perhaps fast due to lack of parasitic drag due to the relative lack of vertical stabilizers. But, that wing was so far aft of the plane's center of gravity, that I think it would have been a beast to fly! That wing had to function as both elevator and aileron since the canards look small relative the overall size of the aircraft. The other thing I noticed was the small wheels on the bottoms of the two vertical stabilizers. I can only imagine how easy it would have been to rotate in the flair, have those tiny wheels make initial contact on a hard landing, and damage the relatively weak looking stabilizers they were attached to.

Ken
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I'm not certain i would agree about the wings Ken. I havent done any math yet of course, but just looking at her, shes a very practical plane. The Main wing is located in line with the engine providing enough lift for the entire back half of the plane, and the canard is quite hefty when contrasted to say the canard on a eurofighter, or sukhoi. its definately a lifting surface with plenty enough acreage to manage lift on the front half of the plane, leaving the CG just about where the pilot sits.. Obviously to me, some part of that canard was a control surface, but whether they used the entire canard as an elevator or only part of it ( small elevators on the back of the canard ) I dont know. i do know that with all the weight in the rear, its going to take a lot less force to move the nose of the plane up and down that it would if they used standard type elevators, and those canards have the potential of developing plenty of force. Enough to flip that bird completely on its back, and cause it to spin out and crash. My guess ( and thats allll it is this morning ) is that they only used part of the canards as elevators using the rest of them as lifting surfaces, in order to maintain some vertical stability. But, i just woke up so i may be way off in dreamland..


Addendum..

I just took a look at the three views on the shinden ( http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/kawanishi_j7w_3v.jpg ) and yeah, the back 1/3 of the canards are used as elevators, and not the entire thing. That would put this plane on par with say, a zero, but at a much faster speed. maybe say 80 to 100 mph faster if my guesser is still working.. The fairy wheels, i just dont understand. Oddly enough, she had twin counter rotating props. i'm surprised at the relatively low top speed of this thing ( 466 mph )considering that i'm contrasting it too the Russian Bear with its speed and performance..
at least, I THINK it had counter rotating props.. may be an optical illusion though..
 
Extra nice Tim! :applause: I'm looking forward to this. I'd like to see a lot more WWII Japanese aircraft for FSX! I wonder if anybody has considered making a Nakajima B5N 'Kate' for FSX?
 
I read up a bit on this when I was looking for any liveries to do back when Ito San released his version. The wheels on the vertical stabs were to reduce /eliminate damage to those surfaces on take off. Apparently they had a bad habit of scraping the ground so the wheels were added. Also, if you look at the 3-view and look at the position of the nosewheel to the mains. . .if you rotate the aircraft nose up a bit to level those out. . .imagine how close the prop would have been to the rwy on take off as well. I think the wheels served a dual purpose.
 
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