The Stop Gap Japanese Plane set solution

[ColdFire427]

Hallo(Hajimemashite)! I posted here for the first time!
I'm from Tokyo Japan(Hachiouji-City). I'm Japanese.
This is the testdata of Ki-84a(the "S17" codenamed by U.S.A.F) by
U.S  T.A.I.U(Technical Air Intelligence Unit) in the spring of 1945.
And in Japan, people generally regard this result of flight-testing as it powered by 140-octane gasoline, but in my opinion, the gasoline used in this test was regular and more normal AN-F-28(100/130)gas for USAF. Empty weight of Ki-84a is 2660-2698kg. And full loaded weight is 3770-3890kg. The weight of the aircraft in this test was about 3600kg, and this could be regarded as its normal combat weight.
                                             DATA
Max Speed: 689(or687)km/h/6100m
Cruising Speed: 410km /h/unknown
Climbing Performance: 3000m/2min48sec
                                    6100m/5min48sec
Service Ceiling: 11800m
Range: 1650km(normal)
             2920km(with two droptanks)

On the other side, another captured Ki-84a("T2-302" coded by US) went through more rigorous testing at the Middletown Air Depot in Pennsylvania in April and May of 1946. The Ki-84a proved superior in early climbing performance, maneuverability and overall handling to the both P-47N and P-51H. Max Speed was slightly inferior to those two aircraft, and the range of the Ki-84a was nearly equal to those of P-51H. But it received negative marks for numerous exhaust pipe problems during testing. According to "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" by Rene J Francillon, in this flight-testing, The speed of The HAYATE at the combat weight with its war emargency power exceeded that of the P-51D-25-NA and P-47D-35-RA at the same altitude(20,000ft) by 3mph and 22mph respectively.

For your Information ---
Sorry for my bad English and thanks for reading!      BYE!

[GScholz]

Originally posted by F4UDOA
Brady,

According to the book "Luffwaffe JG52 War diarys" during the BoB the Germans and Goering kept over estimating the number of airiel kills to the point of the German intelligence believing that the Brits were always down to there last onehundred A/C. The book mentions that Goering punished his fighter pilots by forcing them to fly tight cover for the bombers and not letting them go after the fighters.

So I guess it was the same everywhere.

During BoB the German A2A kill tallies were as accurate as they could be under the circumstances (prolly underestimated considering the strict rules concerning kill verification the Germans used). The overestimation (huge one too) was on how many Spits and Hurries the German bombers destroyed on the ground.

[brady]

Febyary 17th 1945:

   "despite the falling snow, a successful suprise attack was made from a height of 2,500 meters on 19 F6Fs and F4Us that had almost reached their rendezvous point in the skys over Atsugi area.Chasing the enemy aircraft back to see, the 10 planes shot down the entire enemy force of Ninteen aircraft(six probables)"

    They were in N1K2-J's of the Yokosuka Air Group.

  p.236 Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War Two

[brady]

punt.