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[Rata]

I'm glad the P-40 gear will see some benefit. Here's basic landing gear for the WWII Yakovlev fighter series.



Garry G.

[scissorsandplanes]

Thanks for the landing gears, Rata.

[Rata]

You're most welcome scissorsandplanes (I just found out one can't say that with a mouthful of cookie).

[Mike1158]

Thanks very much.

[scissorsandplanes]

Designed the predecessor of the Ki-102 today. (not tested) and did a what-if color scheme.

[Don Boose]

BruNo 3144 is the third of the three prototypes (the first and second had the numerals 1 and 2 on the tail and one and two white-edged fuselage stripes, respectively). Probably as it appeared when undergoing flight tests at the IJAAF operational testing unit at Fussa.

BruNo 3145 is how the aircraft would have looked had it gone into production and been assigned to the 3rd Chutai of the 45th Flying Regiment (Hikō Sentai).

Still no joy on figuring out the unit for Ki-102a (BruNo 3142), but I have been kind of busy this week.

Don

[scissorsandplanes]

Not sure if the 3142 is actually a correct livery.

Some more profiles of design works in progress.

[Don Boose]

Bruno - The markings are of one of three G6M1-Ls originally built as G6M1 "wingtip convoy escorts," converted to transports, and assigned to the logistic support element of the famous Tainan Naval Air Group (Saburo Sakai's outfit). The Tainan Ku had three of these aircraft (V-901, 902, and 903), two of which (V-902 and one other) were destroyed on the ground at Buna by P-400s of the U.S. 35th Fighter Group on 29 August 1942. These aircraft were, in part, the inspiration for a silly post I made about an imaginary Cunliffe-Owen OA-1: http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/684821-post1.html

The markings are okay, but the transport would not have had the truncated tail cone. It would have had a faired-in tail cone.

Here is a photograph of the actual G6M1-L V-901 from Osamu Tagaya, Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikkō ‘Betty’ Units of World War 2, Oxford UK: Osprey Publishing, 2001, page 39. And an image of the tail cone of V-902 after it was destroyed on the ground at Buna.

Don

[Butelczynski]

Note different shape of the door on first picture.I wonder if that particular plane was passenger plane modification rather than cargo.If that's the case ,how did cargo doors looked like on G6M?Much like on L3Y (transport version of older G3M)?

Fighting a war without efficient transportation and supply becomes hard to do very fast. Japanese should have learned that in China but somehow they didn't .

I just realised that sounds like every other war I ever heard of lol.

[Butelczynski]

double tap