Interesting Plane... Very interesting :)..

**warchild** · May 27th, 2011, 13:20

I found this while going through my new book called "Meatballs and Dead Birds" This morning.. I love the open turbo-supercharger. it gives the plane a bit of an anime/van ship appearance...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_Ki-87

**dharris** · May 28th, 2011, 05:40

Good catch, I have not seen this before, of course, at my age, if I had seen it before, does not mean I would have remembered, I think, or maybe I posted in the wrong thread, or forum, heck I can't remember if I replied to this before or not.....................

***Dangerousdave26*** · May 28th, 2011, 06:06

Did any other aircraft have the Turbo Charger in the back?

That seems like it would rob the Turbo of power

Never mind I see now where it is the description of "in the back" had me thinking it was behind the pilot which did not sound logical.

**Phantom88** · May 28th, 2011, 06:33

The P-47 had it's SuperCharger mounted in the aft of the fuselage,Very Ingenious Design.
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**Hurricane91** · May 28th, 2011, 07:28

Originally Posted by warchild

...Nakajima_Ki-87...

Daisuke Iga did a very nice Ki-87 for CFS2 about a year ago. Accurately modeled and with good animations, it works in FS9. Very personable, Daisuke exchanged comments with us at the SOH CFS2 forum when the aircraft was released. Perhaps he would consent to an FSX conversion.

The Ki-87 at Cees Donker's Bergen airfield in the Netherlands.
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Daisuke Iga's downloads...
http://www.kawausohermitage.sakura.n.../hanger_en.htm

**fliger747** · May 28th, 2011, 09:38

My guess is that the Japanese got a hold on some turbo units that had "fallen out of the sky" and went A'ha.... or some equivilent.

By that point in the war Japan did not have the raw materials to create the superior metalurgy needed for sucessful turbo units as they were not even able to do a sufficently good job of manufactiring the DB601, largely for of the same reason.

So ironically the submarine war helped win the air war.

Nice to see these Japanese planes, to which we normally get little exposure here.

Cheers: T

**warchild** · May 28th, 2011, 09:52

I gotta admit, I'm loving this book.. Throughout the night last night i was picking it up and thumbing through it, almost afraid of posting other planes from it that are totally cool ( like the KI-61 tony ) because i didnt want to bore everyone to death with them.. I'm hoping some young or young at heart developer will get all excited and build one or two of these..

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**warchild** · May 28th, 2011, 09:58

Originally Posted by Hurricane91

Daisuke Iga did a very nice Ki-87 for CFS2 about a year ago. Accurately modeled and with good animations, it works in FS9. Very personable, Daisuke exchanged comments with us at the SOH CFS2 forum when the aircraft was released. Perhaps he would consent to an FSX conversion.

The Ki-87 at Cees Donker's Bergen airfield in the Netherlands.

Daisuke Iga's downloads...
http://www.kawausohermitage.sakura.n.../hanger_en.htm

That looks really good. I'd love to fly this thing in FSX.. We'll just have to keep our fingers corossed and hope eh??