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Raxar
Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: February 28th, 2013, 2:18 am
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Aichi D3A "Val", primary divebomber of the CNAC from 1940-1945.
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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: February 28th, 2013, 9:30 pm
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Looking good, Raxar. Nice colour scheme!
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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 2:06 am
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Thanks IJ!

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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 1st, 2013, 7:00 pm
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I missed the D6 update earlier, but it's a very nice design. It reminds me a bit of some Curtiss prototypes, very mean looking. I know how hard it is to design realistic AU aircraft, so keep up the good work!

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Raxar
Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 2nd, 2013, 3:08 am
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Thanks Kilomuse!
BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing the AU aircraft you've been hinting about. ;) :)
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The Sonderson KM-3 "Colfax":
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Beginning in the mid-1940's, Sonderson Aviation predicted that jet aircraft would eventually replace their piston-powered counterparts. Sonderson had always been the underdog when it came to winning design contracts with the Cenetian Military, usually loosing out to Werlen Korp. for fighter aircraft. Due to this, Sonderson had developed it's niche in other forms of specialized aircraft, and jumped on the jet bandwagon, hoping to beat out Werlen. The first successful aircraft was dubbed the KM-3 "Colfax", and first flew in 1947. In December of 1948, the Cenetian Air Force, now 2 years into being independant of the Army, placed an order for 50 aircraft, and the Colfax went into production.
When introduced, it's performance was not stellar, but not terrible either. It's large wing area relative to it's short length and stubby fuselage, rendered the KM-3 slightly slower than other 1st Generation Jets, but it was a steady flyer and quite rugged. Overall, the KM-3 was a mediocre success, and lessons learned from it's teething problems were used to develop later aircraft.

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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 2nd, 2013, 8:42 am
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Straight wing with low aspect ratio and no horizontal stabillizer?
Drawing looks nice, but I have some doubts (maybe unfounded) about feasibility of it's aerodynamical design.
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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 2nd, 2013, 4:57 pm
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I agree with eswube very nice drawing not positive about the feasibility, but what do i know. One for thing forsure is that I'm pretty sure few airplanes had straight wings with no horizontal stabilizer as such a practice was only common with delta wings.
Maybe a top view sketch would help?

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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 2nd, 2013, 6:24 pm
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@Trojan
Not only with delta wings, but also swept wings - Me-163, DH.108 Swallow, F7U Cutlass etc.
Generally - with other wing design than above.
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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 2nd, 2013, 10:42 pm
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yes my mistake :(
you are correct :D

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Post subject: Re: Federation of Cenet in FDPosted: March 3rd, 2013, 2:05 am
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My bad on the horizontal stabs, thaks for pointing that out. :oops:

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