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Welcome to Hikoki: 1946. Hikoki, which roughly means airplane, and = the year=20 1946 combine to present to you what might have been had the Japanese air = arm and=20 industry had another year with which to develop and deploy their = experimental=20 aircraft. In the recent years, there has been an explosion of = information on=20 German experimental aircraft. Books, videos, and websites abound with = details,=20 images, and speculation on these planes. But there has been a noticable = vacuum=20 when it comes to Japanese experimental ( or X-craft ) aircraft. Sure, = you may=20 see some of the more common ones mentioned, but there is so much more = and unless=20 you had access to Japanese bookstores or the ability to dig through = scores of=20 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 ...
read=20 more"The=20 Skunk Works."
December 23, 2011 =
Lockheed XP-80A = (44-83021)
In late 1944 the Army pilots visited Muroc to fly the = Gray Ghost=20 and Lulubelle in mock combat against such front-line fighters as the = P-38, P-47,=20 and P-51 and various bombers. The secret tests were designed to find out = what=20 tactical formations, if any, could be used against the German jets then = being=20 seen in combat over Europe. The jets bested the propeller-driven planes = every=20 time. The results of the exercise made production of American jet = fighters all=20 the more urgent to counter the German threat.
The P-80 and the Me 262 never met in combat, but many students of =
aerial=20
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=20
was also an aircraft that was rushed into production before all its bugs =
had=20
been worked ...
What=20 If Aircraft - FIAT G.56
October 24, 2011 = =20 1=20 Comment
The most highly developed fighter produced in Italy during the war, = the sole=20 G.56 prototype was flown in March, 1944, under German authority. A = G.55/I=20 airframe was fitted with the improved DB 603A engine, which produced = 1510 h.p.=20 at 18,700 ft. and had a 1750 h.p. take=C2=B7 off and emergency rating. = This engine=20 was the only major change from G.55/I specification, yet it increased = the length=20 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=20 fighter designs, the G.56 possessed sufficient speed and firepower = (armament=20 being that of the G.55/I) to match any Allied or German fighter on even = terms,=20 actually proving itself superior to the Bf 109G and Fw 190A in = comparative=20 tests. The shortage of engines which limited ...
read=20 moreAlternate=20 Campaign Settings for Fighting Wings
August 7, 2011 = =20 0=20 Comments
Alternate Campaign Settings for Fighting Wings
This page describes alternative campaign settings for Fighting Wings = games in=20 addition to those described by Over the Reich (Europe '43-'45) and = Achtung=20 Spitfire (Battle of Britain). The aircraft represented in those games = and in=20 ADCs presented in Air Power magazine and on Uncle Ted's ADC Collection = provide=20 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=20 and number of aircraft involved (including TO&Es) and the types of = missions=20 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=20 (submissions welcome!). I have much more information than I can enter at = once.=20 So, rather than waiting a year or so more until I had the time to = ...
Gudkov=20 Gu-VRD
April 27, 2011
As Gudkov developed the plane the engine was developed by = A.M.=20 Lyulka. "In the war years the work on development of A.M.Lyulka's RTD-1 = engine=20 continued.... In 1943 under the leadership of M.I.Gudkov (one of the = designers=20 of the known LaGG-3 piston- engined fighter), a variant of the LaGG-3 = powered by=20 the RTD-1 engine was being designed. The engine was to be installed in = the=20 "step" layout at the bottom of the fuselage with jet exhaust under the = tail=20 [Yak-15 look-alike]. The maximum speed of the modified LaGG-3 was = estimated at=20 900km/h". Drawn by Jozef Gatial.
Lyulka RTD-1 jet engine = design.
Lyulka RD-1 jet engine = design.
LINK
In 1943 Mikhail I. Gudkov began to design the Gu-VRD fighter, which = was to be=20 powered by a single example of Lyul'ka's latest engine mounted in = ...
Lockheed=20 L-133 interceptor
April 27, 2011 =
Nathan Price (r) and Hall Hibbard = examining an=20 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=20 during the first half of World War II.
The Lockheed aviation company was the first in the United States to = start=20 work on a jet-powered aircraft, the L-133 design started in 1939 as a = number of=20 "Paper Projects" by engineers Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, Willis Hawkins = and Hall=20 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.=20 In the meantime Lockheed were working on an axial-flow L-1000 turbojet = engine of=20 their own design, which was intended to power the culmination of the jet = fighter=20 project, the Model L-133-02-01.
Throughout World War II, the development of a jet-powered fighter had = the=20 ...
read=20 moreTHE=20 'AMERIKABOMBER'
February 26, 2011 =
The sole example of the Me 264, the = original 'Amerikabomber', first flew in December 1942. Such close attention was = paid to=20 its aerodynamic properties that the joints in the wings and fuselage = were filled=20 with putty.
The = Luftwaffe, we may=20 recall, was intended as a tactical, rather than a strategic, air force, = unlike=20 the USAAF and the RAF, and it never operated really large, long-range = bomber=20 aircraft, like the American B-17 Flying Fortress or B-24 Liberator, or = the=20 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=20 designed as a civilian airliner and the latter was a hasty = transformation of=20 another), which were capable of flying very long distances, but these = were=20 intended primarily for ultra-long-range maritime reconnaissance, and = while they=20 did carry bombs (and variants of both carried glider bombs), they were unsuitable for ...
The=20 Alternate Luftwaffe
February 15, 2011 =By
John Baxter
Stories involving the men and = machines of a=20 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&W illustrations/photos
- Full colour = cover
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THE=20 MESSERSCHMITT JET FIGHTER
February 14, 2011 = =20 0=20 Comments
The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter in the = world.=20 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=20 speed for its time of 870 km/h (497 mph) at an altitude of 6000 meters = (19,685=20 feet), nearly 200 km/h faster than the North American P-51 Mustang. The = Me 262=20 also employed the deathly firepower of four nose- mounted MK-1 08 30 mm = cannon.=20 Its operational service, however, was hampered by the unreliability of = its=20 engines and its weak undercarriage.
The first serial-produced Me 262A-1a (Werknummer 1300061VI+AF) took = off on=20 its maiden flight on 28 March 1944. The first Me 262s were allocated to=20 Erprobungskommando 262, a special fighter evaluation unit of the = Luftwaffe under=20 the command of Hauptmann (Captain) Werner Thierfelder, on 19 April 1944=20 ...
=E2=80=98WUNDERWAFFE=E2=80=99=20 OF THE AIR
February 14, 2011 =
Jet and Rocket Aircraft of the WWII Period
Aircraft propelled by gas turbines or rocket engines. Compared to the = piston=20 engine, the gas turbine (or jet engine) promised to offer unrivaled=20 power-to-weight ratios, provided that the metallurgical, mechanical, and = aerodynamic design problems could be solved. While still a Royal Air = Force (RAF)=20 cadet in 1928, Frank Whittle argued that the gas turbine was a practical = power=20 unit. He continued to work on the idea and formed his own company, Power = Jets,=20 in 1935. In Germany, Hans- Joachim Pabst von Ohain developed a jet = engine that=20 first ran in 1937, flying it in a Heinkel 178 test aircraft in August = 1939.=20 Whittle=E2=80=99s prototype engine flew in the Gloster E28/39 in May = 1941.
The Germans also experimented with rocket fighters, with the = Messerschmitt=20 Me-163 entering service in June 1944 against U.S. bombers. The Me-163 = had an=20 incredible climb but ...
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