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MV-22B Mega Sheet

I made a few tweaks to Ashebourton's detailed MV-22B - similar to the ones I made for the CMV-22B. I used as much of the original tail art as possible, but obviously made quite a bit of it from scratch. On to the Japanese V-22s.

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A.K.A. Das_Schlemm


Worklist:
FD Scale USN/USMC/USCG Aircraft
SB Scale USN Ships
Trainbucket Anthracite Railroads

Empire of Japan, Nakajima Ki-43-I/II/III Hayabusa
(11/08/23: added ki-43-i)

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In your dreams. ~ Yae Miko
報園-872 (方義鑑銃)
Patriotic Presentation Number 872, Q-102 (A6M3-32 captured in Buna, New Guinea)

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Good afternoon, guys.

Some interwar touring and sporting aircraft, built with 5-cylinder radial engines, Kinner and Wright Whirwind.

Travel Air 4000 was the most built aircraft of the era (the series 2000/ 3000/ 4000), a biplane of conventional steel tube, wood, metal sheets and canvas, with between 1200 and 2000 (the quantity is uncertain because several rebuilts were counted as newly ones). Powered by several engines, both radial or in-line rated between 75 and 120 hp, the model E 4000 had the Wright R-540, being the most powerful of the series with 165 hp.


Parks P-2 was the personal mount of author Richard Bach and was inmortalized in the novel "Biplane", despite being built in rather small quantities.


Spartan C-3 was a biplane made in the interwar years, of conventional construction and equiped with several engines, the most powerful had a 225 7-cylinder Wrigth Whirwind radial.


Davies D-1 was one of the smallest touring airplanes built before the Wall Street Crack. A parasol wing aircraft of conventional construction and powered by the small but reliable Kinner 5-cylinder radial, was built in small numbers.


Kinner Airster was a biplane built with 2 radial engines, one, the early model was a 3-cylinder one of conventional construction, and a later model, with playwood planks instead canvas, a patognomonic slab sided view and a 5-cylinder Kinner engine. The one depicted here was the later model.


Finally, a racing airplane built by Travel Air Manfacturing Co (created by Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman), the Model R Mystery Ship, a low wing monoplane braced with steel strings. Powered by several aeroengines of increasing power output, only five Mystery Ships were built and were flown by some of the most notable flyers of the day, including Jimmy Doolittle not only in races but also at air shows across the United States and Europe.
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Cheers!

Excellent additions from everyone.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

The D.37 was a single-seat aircraft of conventional configuration. Its fixed landing gear used a tailskid. The open cockpit was located slightly aft of the parasol wing. The radial engine allowed for a comparatively wide fuselage and cockpit.

Design of this machine was by SAF-Avions Dewoitine but owing to over work at that companies plant at the time, manufacture of the D.37/01 was transferred to Lioré et Olivier. They were high-wing monoplanes of all-metal construction with valve head blisters on their engine cowlings. The first prototype flew in October 1931. Flight testing resulted in the need for multiple revisions in both engine and airframe, so it was February 1934 before the second prototype flew. Its performance prompted the French government to order for 28 for the Armée de l'Air and Aéronavale. The Lithuanian government ordered 14 that remained in service with their Air Force until 1936, when they were sold to the Spanish Republican government.

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RAIDer1_1

Good evening, gentlemen:

Two wartime soviet aircraft:

Ilyushin Il-4 was a refinement of the previous Ilyushin DB-3 (in fact, it was initially known as DB-3F), with more powerful Tumansky M-88 radials, and a much refined nose. In the first years of the war, it was the backbone of the long range soviet air force, despite a rather weak defensive armament. And until the end of the war, Il-4 formed the bulk of the soviet shore based torpedo-bomber formations.


Pavel Sukhoi was a gifted designer and was a protegee of Tupolev. In this last bureau he designed a single engined, short range, multirole bomber. Initially named as BB-1, later, this aircraft was known as Su-2. This airplane was the main close support aircraft of the soviets during the first year of the Great Patriotic War, and during Barbarossa, it suffered heavily to the german fighters and Flak. Su-2 powerplant was improved continuously, first was equiped with the Tumansky M-87, and almost inmediately this was changed to the more powerful M-88 and M-88B. The last variants were powered by the much more potent Shvestov M-82, and Su-2 max. speed reached almost 500 kms. But despite of this, its role was considerated obsolete by the soviet high command, and was replaced by the Il-2 Sturmovik, being relegated to secondary roles in 1943.


Cheers.

Very nice work, surprising its taken as long for the Il-4 and Su-2 to turn up in FD scale as it has as both seem fairly well known, if not as famous as the Il-2 and Yaks and MiGs of the period.

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Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Specially being (the Ilyushin more than the Sukhoi, at least for me) a pair of good looking airplanes (at least in a side view)!

Good evening, guys.
A pair of japanese WWII era airplanes:

Kokusai Ki-76 Stella was a liaison and observation light aircraft, inspired by the German-made Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch" it was powered by a Hitachi radial, had a high wing, fowler flaps and fixed landing gear, and had an exceptional performance for short take off and landings. It was equiped as ASW aircraft (with 2 60 kgs depth bombs) flying from the short flight deck of the IJA carrier Akitsu Maru, alongside with the Kayaba autogyro.


Mitsubishi Ki-57 Topsy was a transport for 11 passengers, derived from the Mitsubishi Sally Bomber. First flown in 1940 in both civilian and military versions. More than 400 were built and was the standart japanese transport of that size until the end of the war.


Cheers.