#Kyushu J7W Shinden

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Chasseur expérimental Kyushu J7W1 Shinden découvert dans une usine à Fukuoka – Japon – 10 octobre 1945

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Minus One

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The Spy x Family movie is really good, but all I can think about is how the subtitles made the same really weird specific translation mistake as Godzilla Minus One of describing an obviously propeller-driven fighter plane as a "fighter jet."

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IJN Kyushu J7W Shinden fighter prototype being inspected by US officers after the surrender of Japan, 1945.

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J7W Kyushu Shinden by Kalvin Goodlow on Sketchfab

J7W Kyushu Shinden model I made back in 2018. Stills captured in Unity.

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1945 - Il KyushuJ7W Shinden è stato un caccia giapponese con le ali nel retro, canard frontale e configurazione spingente. Solo due aeroplani furono costruiti, dotati di grande manovrabilità. ---FONTI: youtube japanese army fighters short - wikipedia kyushu j7w

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-One of two prototypes of the J7W Shinden, built in the closing days of WWII. | Photo: US Navy

FLIGHTLINE: 180 - KYUSHU HIKOKI K.K. J7W SHINDEN

The Shinden ("Magnificent Lightning") was meant to defend the Home Islands from encroaching bombers, but only one was completed before war's end.

As the tide of war turned against them, the Imperial Japanese sought something, anything to protect the Home Islands from the Allied forces. USAAF B-29s were raining bombs over Japan, and the Imperial Japanese Navy thought they had a solution in a design from Lieutenant Commander Masayoshi Tsuruno of the IJN's technical staff. Seeking a highly maneuverable fighter, based on land and with enough firepower to bring down a Superfortress, Tsuruno designed a simple aircraft featuring a pusher prop, narrow, swept wings, and a canard. This form, he reasoned, could be easily adapted to jet propulsion once a working turbojet was available, and could pack a large amount of firepower. Tsuruno's designs were refined at Dai-Ichi Kaigun Koku Gijitsusho ("First Naval Air Technical Arsenal"), which resulted in the construction of three gliders by the end of 1943 to demonstrate the airworthiness of the design. The Yokosuka MXY6, built by Chigasaki Seizo K.K. proved that the design was feasible, with one being fitted with 22hp, 4-cylinder engine to further test the abilities of the craft.

-One of the MXY6s, captured after war's end. Despite its simplistic construction, the plane proved the theories behind it were sound. | Photo: US Navy

The IJN was so impressed by the MXY6 that Tsuruno was chosen to lead a team from Yokosuka to work with Kyūshū Hikōki K.K. to develop and produce an interceptor based on his ideas. Kyushu, normally a subcontractor on other company's designs, was chosen as the design team and factories had no pressing orders at the time. The resulting J7W ("J" being the IJN designation for land-based fighters, 7 being the number of the design, and "W" for Watanabe Tekkōjo, the parent company of Kyushu Hikoki) looked like nothing else in the Japanese arsenal.

-Orthograph of the J7W. | Illustration: Aviastar

The Shinden had a pointed, narrow fuselage with canards forward, a low-mounted, tapered wing, and two small vertical fins and rudders positioned half-way across the wing. In order to prevent the prop from striking the ground during takeoff, the ventral fins had small wheels, while the aircraft itself sat on tricycle-style landing gear, with a slightly nose-up attitude. The aircraft was 9.66m long, with an 11.114m wingspan and was 3.92m tall. Empty, the J7 weighed just 3,645kg, while max TO weight was 5,288kg. The plane was propelled by a Mitsubishi HA-43 Model 12 air-cooled radial engine, developing 1,590kW at takeoff. The 6-bladed, constant speed prop was connected to the engine by an extension shaft, and the plane was capable of 750kmh at 8,700m. Despite range not being a concern, the aircraft was still capable of flying 852km unrefueled, with a time to 8,000m of 10 minutes, 40 seconds, and a maximum altitude of 12,000m (three thousand meters higher than the B-29 could fly). The Shinden was designed to carry four 30mm Type 5 cannon, with 60 rounds per gun, and although not designed as an attack aircraft, the J7W could carry four bombs of either 30 or 60kg each.

-A J7W under construction at the Kyushu plant. The aircraft would not be completed before the Japanese surrender. | Photo: US Navy

Even before the Shinden flew, the IJN ordered the type into production, with a quota of 30 planes per month from Kyushu's Zasshonokuma factory, and another 120 per month from Nakajima Hikōki K.K.'s Handa plant. The Navy anticipated having almost 1,100 Shinden completed between April 1946 and March 1947. The J7W took its maiden flight on 3 August 1945, with Masayoshi Tsuruno at the controls. The aircraft performed as expected, but the engine had a tendency to overheat on the ground due to the configuration of the intakes. The aircraft also had a marked pull to the starboard (due to the torque of the engine), flutter in the propeller blades, and vibration of the prop shaft. Two more test flights were carried out, coincidentally on the same days as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

-Undated photo of the completed J7W prototype. | Photo: US Navy

At the time of Japan's surrender, the J7W had accumulated 45 flight minutes. The two aircraft, along with the MXY6 gliders and related materials were turned over the Americans during the post-war occupation; one was claimed by a Navy Technical Air Intelligence Unit, and the other was scrapped in place. The Shinden acquired by the TAIU was disassembled, crated, and shipped back to the US. It was then reassembled, but there is no indication that it was ever test flown by the Navy. In 1960, the plane was turned over to the Smithsonian, and the unrestored fuselage is currently on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport. Per the Air & Space Museum, additional parts of the aircraft are in storage at the Garber Facility, but whether the Shinden is complete, or if a restoration is planned, is currently unknown.

-US personnel examine the J7W after it was turned over. | Photo: US Navy

-The cockpit and nose of the sole J7W, on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center. A Yokosuka Ohka kamikaze plane is to the immediate left, and a Nakajima J1N1-S Gekkō is visible behind both. Photo: Ducatipierre

-Renderings of the J7W. | Illustration: Anynobody

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Strikers 1945 (ストライカーズ1945 / Sutoraikāzu 1945)  Es un videojuego de género Shoot 'Em Up de scroll vertical, creado para árcade y lanzado en 1995 por la compañía japonesa Psikyo. El jugador puede escoger entre 6 aviones reales que existieron en la época de la segunda guerra mundial, estos son: ·         P-38 Lightning ·         P-51 Mustang ·         Supermarine Spitfire ·         Messerschmitt Bf 109 ·         Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero ·         Kyushu J7W Shinden Debido al éxito del título, Psikyo decidió lanzar Strikers 1945 a consolas. El juego fue lanzado exclusivamente en Japón a las plataformas PlayStation y Sega Saturn bajo la distribución de Atlus en 1996 y posteriormente fue lanzado en PlayStation 2 el 2001 dentro de la colección Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 1: Strikers 1945 I & II, desarrollada y distribuida por Taito. Director: Naozumi Yorichika Productor:          Jun-ichi Niwa Shin. Nakamura Compositor:       Masaki Izutani OST: https://youtu.be/2Gn_O8OQTIU https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwhhZxNJ6l/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Personification of Japanese fighter Kyushu J7W1 Shinden.

The hairstyle by its form and shape was taken from the mandarin duck, because of the Canard arrangement of this plane, and because of this plane is Japanese, 'cause those ducks lives there, they are Eastern as the plane. The yellow-orange-red line on forelock is a reference to the name "Shinden" - "magnificent lightning". Because Shinden-san was an abandoned as prototype I had a thought to dress her not only in the military uniform, but also in some traditional clothes - hakama. To fly in this isn't hard. At least, its technomagic! (and almost no scientifical logic) х3 She is courageous, audacious, brave, single-eyed, easy-going, honest, but acting in small radius, because of lack of energy, because her power is "going out" very strongly and quickly. To cope/act with her is too hard, especially for the uneducated person. Her qualities of temper are based on real characteristics of the project of this plane. All along her life she is enemies with B-29 "Superfortress", because was created to fight her. But according to history she had 0 fights and the the Americans reached her and "investigated" (uknowwhatimean)...

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Kyushu J7W Shinden by fsll2 Via Flickr: Kyushu J7W Shinden at the NASM Silver Hill Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in July 1980.

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This Day in Aviation History August 3rd, 1945 First flight of the Kyushu J7W Shinden.

This Day in Aviation History August 3rd, 1945 First flight of the Kyushu J7W Shinden.

The Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden (震電, “Magnificent Lightning”) fighter was a World War II Japanese propeller-driven aircraft prototype with wings at the rear of the fuselage, a nose mounted canard, and pusher engine.

Developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as a short-range, land-based interceptor, the J7W was a response to Boeing B-29 Superfortress raids on the Japanese home islands. For…

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An Imperial Japanese Navy Kyushu J7W Shinden experimental fighter with its Japanese engineers and their US guards from the 5th Fighter Command.

Only two were ever built with the one pictured after this photo having been shipped to the US for testing. It is now in the stores of the US National Air and Space Museum.

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Not quite a Kyushu J7W Shinden, at Production IG's studio.