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Hikoki:1946

by Mitch on August 30, 2012 0
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Welcome to Hikoki: 1946. Hikoki, which roughly means airplane, and the year
1946 combine to present to you what might have been had the Japanese air arm and
industry had another year with which to develop and deploy their experimental
aircraft. In the recent years, there has been an explosion of information on
German experimental aircraft. Books, videos, and websites abound with details,
images, and speculation on these planes. But there has been a noticable vacuum
when it comes to Japanese experimental ( or X-craft ) aircraft. Sure, you may
see some of the more common ones mentioned, but there is so much more and unless
you had access to Japanese bookstores or the ability to dig through scores of
old magazines and books, you'd come up short on the depth and breadth of
Japanese X-craft projects. The purpose of this website is to display and
describe these planes and fill ...
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"The
Skunk Works."
by Mitch on
December 23, 2011 1
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Lockheed XP-80A (44-83021)

In late 1944 the Army pilots visited Muroc to fly the Gray Ghost
and Lulubelle in mock combat against such front-line fighters as the P-38, P-47,
and P-51 and various bombers. The secret tests were designed to find out what
tactical formations, if any, could be used against the German jets then being
seen in combat over Europe. The jets bested the propeller-driven planes every
time. The results of the exercise made production of American jet fighters all
the more urgent to counter the German threat.

The P-80 and the Me 262 never met in combat, but many students of aerial
combat have debated what the outcome of such a battle might have been.

The Me 262 was an amazing aircraft, well ahead of its time in many ways, but it
was also an aircraft that was rushed into production before all its bugs had
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What
If Aircraft - FIAT G.56
by
Mitch on October 24, 2011
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The most highly developed fighter produced in Italy during the war, the sole
G.56 prototype was flown in March, 1944, under German authority. A G.55/I
airframe was fitted with the improved DB 603A engine, which produced 1510 h.p.
at 18,700 ft. and had a 1750 h.p. take· off and emergency rating. This engine
was the only major change from G.55/I specification, yet it increased the length
by 4 3/4 in., the weight by 440 lb., and the maximum speed by 40 m.p.h.
Retaining the excellent manoeuvrability that characterized almost all Italian
fighter designs, the G.56 possessed sufficient speed and firepower (armament
being that of the G.55/I) to match any Allied or German fighter on even terms,
actually proving itself superior to the Bf 109G and Fw 190A in comparative
tests. The shortage of engines which limited ...
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Alternate
Campaign Settings for Fighting Wings
by
Mitch on August 7, 2011
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Alternate Campaign Settings for Fighting Wings

This page describes alternative campaign settings for Fighting Wings games in
addition to those described by Over the Reich (Europe '43-'45) and Achtung
Spitfire (Battle of Britain). The aircraft represented in those games and in
ADCs presented in Air Power magazine and on Uncle Ted's ADC Collection provide
us with a wider array of campaign settings depending on your inclination or
interest.

For each setting, the goal is to provide an accurate description of the types
and number of aircraft involved (including TO&Es) and the types of missions
flown. Where I have existing scenarios, I'll link them in too.

These pages will not be completed immediately, and will expand as time allows
(submissions welcome!). I have much more information than I can enter at once.
So, rather than waiting a year or so more until I had the time to ...
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Gudkov
Gu-VRD
by Mitch on
April 27, 2011 0
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As Gudkov developed the plane the engine was developed by A.M.
Lyulka. "In the war years the work on development of A.M.Lyulka's RTD-1 engine
continued.... In 1943 under the leadership of M.I.Gudkov (one of the designers
of the known LaGG-3 piston- engined fighter), a variant of the LaGG-3 powered by
the RTD-1 engine was being designed. The engine was to be installed in the
"step" layout at the bottom of the fuselage with jet exhaust under the tail
[Yak-15 look-alike]. The maximum speed of the modified LaGG-3 was estimated at
900km/h". Drawn by Jozef Gatial.

Lyulka RTD-1 jet engine design.

Lyulka RD-1 jet engine design.

LINK

http://www.unicraft.20m.com/on/guvrd/guvrd.htm

In 1943 Mikhail I. Gudkov began to design the Gu-VRD fighter, which was to be
powered by a single example of Lyul'ka's latest engine mounted in ...
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Lockheed
L-133 interceptor
by Mitch
on April 27, 2011 0
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Nathan Price (r) and Hall Hibbard examining an
XJ-37 (L-1000) turbojet engine.

A 3 view plane of the Lockheed
L-133-02-01

The Lockheed L-133 was designed to be the first jet fighter of the US Forces
during the first half of World War II.

The Lockheed aviation company was the first in the United States to start
work on a jet-powered aircraft, the L-133 design started in 1939 as a number of
"Paper Projects" by engineers Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, Willis Hawkins and Hall
J Hibbard. By 1940 preliminary work on a company financed jet fighter had been
started, which progressed to several different versions on the drawing board.
In the meantime Lockheed were working on an axial-flow L-1000 turbojet engine of
their own design, which was intended to power the culmination of the jet fighter
project, the Model L-133-02-01.

Throughout World War II, the development of a jet-powered fighter had the
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THE
'AMERIKABOMBER'
by Mitch on
February 26, 2011 0
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The sole example of the Me 264, the original
'Amerikabomber', first flew in December 1942. Such close attention was paid to
its aerodynamic properties that the joints in the wings and fuselage were filled
with putty.

The Luftwaffe, we may
recall, was intended as a tactical, rather than a strategic, air force, unlike
the USAAF and the RAF, and it never operated really large, long-range bomber
aircraft, like the American B-17 Flying Fortress or B-24 Liberator, or the
British Lancaster, in any substantial numbers. It had aircraft, like the
Focke-Wulf FW 200 'Condor' and the Junkers Ju 290 (though the former was
designed as a civilian airliner and the latter was a hasty transformation of
another), which were capable of flying very long distances, but these were
intended primarily for ultra-long-range maritime reconnaissance, and while they
did carry bombs (and variants of both carried glider bombs), they were
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The
Alternate Luftwaffe
by Mitch
on February 15, 2011 0
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By

John Baxter

Stories involving the men and machines of a
very different Luftwaffe during World War Two.

Features:

22 short stories of alternate
history

131 pages of text

10 pages of colour
artworks/photos

80 B&amp;W
illustrations/photos

Full colour cover

$33.00 Australian plus postage and packaging.
All Overseas purchases dispatched by AirMail. Overseas customers please pay via
International Money Order or Credit Card for the required amount. Payable in
Australian dollars only. All cheques payable to John Baxter. Australian
customers please allow time for personal chequea to clear before despatch.

CREDIT CARDS (Mastercard/Visa) accepted.

All Books packed in solid reliable cardboard
packets for maximum safety.

Postage and packaging rates:
Australia $4.00
Asia/Pacific $8.00
Europe
$17.00
North America $14.00

Available
from: John Baxter
23 St. George's Road South
Fitzroy North
Victoria,
3068
AUSTRALIA

Email John
at: mailto:[email-masked]?Subject=The%20Alternate%20Luftwaffe
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THE
MESSERSCHMITT JET FIGHTER
by
Mitch on February 14, 2011
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The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter in the world.
Its Jumo 004 turbojet powerplants and swept wing made it one of the most
extraordinary designs of World War IT. The Me 262A-1a achieved an incredible top
speed for its time of 870 km/h (497 mph) at an altitude of 6000 meters (19,685
feet), nearly 200 km/h faster than the North American P-51 Mustang. The Me 262
also employed the deathly firepower of four nose- mounted MK-1 08 30 mm cannon.
Its operational service, however, was hampered by the unreliability of its
engines and its weak undercarriage.

The first serial-produced Me 262A-1a (Werknummer 1300061VI+AF) took off on
its maiden flight on 28 March 1944. The first Me 262s were allocated to
Erprobungskommando 262, a special fighter evaluation unit of the Luftwaffe under
the command of Hauptmann (Captain) Werner Thierfelder, on 19 April 1944
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‘WUNDERWAFFE’
OF THE AIR
by Mitch on
February 14, 2011 0
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Jet and Rocket Aircraft of the WWII Period

Aircraft propelled by gas turbines or rocket engines. Compared to the piston
engine, the gas turbine (or jet engine) promised to offer unrivaled
power-to-weight ratios, provided that the metallurgical, mechanical, and
aerodynamic design problems could be solved. While still a Royal Air Force (RAF)
cadet in 1928, Frank Whittle argued that the gas turbine was a practical power
unit. He continued to work on the idea and formed his own company, Power Jets,
in 1935. In Germany, Hans- Joachim Pabst von Ohain developed a jet engine that
first ran in 1937, flying it in a Heinkel 178 test aircraft in August 1939.
Whittle’s prototype engine flew in the Gloster E28/39 in May 1941.

The Germans also experimented with rocket fighters, with the Messerschmitt
Me-163 entering service in June 1944 against U.S. bombers. The Me-163 had an
incredible climb but ...

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