Ki84

[clerick]

No disrespect intended.

  to the Raw Prawns, worthy and respected opponents.

Until I weaseled my way in

[lyric1]

Seems to be a good place to post this some light reading with a few pictures.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/j2zhiekbo3n1fv4/224603032-Ki-84-Ia-Technical-Manual.pdf

[FTJR]

  thanks

[lyric1]

Seems to be a good place to post this some light reading with a few pictures.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/j2zhiekbo3n1fv4/224603032-Ki-84-Ia-Technical-Manual.pdf

Turns out this is not a KI-84 at all.
It is a KI-106 the prototype made of wood instead of metal.

http://silverhawkauthor.com/aviation-japanese-warplane-survivors_408.html

[lyric1]

Japanese hand book KI-84.

http://www.4shared.com/office/-uD6wS5X/Ki-84_Pilots_Manual__Japanese_.html

[lyric1]

This time it's a KI-84.

https://www.mediafire.com/?54flqc406co7a68

[Bino]

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If HTC wants to update the Ki-84 series, I'd rather see the -Ib or -Ic armament models (4x20mm / 2x20mm, 2x30mm) added to the mix.
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^ this   

[save]

Pretty much the same ratio as the 3-gun package for the LA-7 with 50% more damage, vs the 2-gun version at no extra weight.
 
Ever seen a 2-gun La-7 in AH  ? I doubt it.

The hardest part to establish with this model is the numbers actually produced. The four cannon version being manufactured at one point in parallel with the two cannon version with the unique aircraft identification numbers for that type being assigned a new starting position to allow room for the accommodation of the continuing production of the standard model.

Photographic evidence is not useful because externally the differences are only a slightly different size, shape and location of the gas ejection ports on the sides of the forward fuselage. The instrument panels were also different to accommodate the slightly larger breeches.

Current research can do no better than to place the production numbers of the four-cannon version somewhere between 100 and 350 models produced. This is from an approximate 3,500 Hayates produced in total.

We currently have the so-called Ki-84-Ia early production version, this was replaced on the production lines (during the approximately 18 months of production in total) by a late production version which was lighter and had a slightly more powerful engine. The four cannon version was based on this model, thus if this is introduced to Aces High, it would be a lighter, more heavily armed and a more powerful version of the current Hayate we have.

[Scca]

Ever seen a 2-gun La-7 in AH  ? I doubt it.

I never take the 3 gun.  The 3 gun may hit harder, but you get more firing time with the two gun, and two is plenty.

[lyric1]

Few KI-84 parts that were on EBAY.

[Vraciu]

Why not?

Its simply historical, the plane has the ability to carry a drop and a bomb, like a corsair.

+1

[nrshida]

Few KI-84 parts that were on EBAY.

Typical bloody eBay. Those parts were advertised as NiB 

Although it pains me to disappoint a fellow Ki-84 fanatic, I'm sorry to inform you there was no version of the Hayate fielded with two 30-mm cannons. The model which you describe as the -Ic carried, in practice, a single Ho-155 30-mm cannon in the starboard wing, nothing in the port wing and two Ho-5 20-mm cannon in the cowling. The single installation reflecting the availability of this weapon which was only entering mass production at the war's end.

Have to correct myself. The 30-mm was in the port wing. A typo in the original text is to blame which is often incorrectly quoted. Apparently also by me five years ago.

This would of course make a profound difference in the flight modelling 

[lyric1]

Typical bloody eBay. Those parts were advertised as NiB 

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[nrshida]

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Joke. It is Friday.

[lyric1]

Altimeter.









http://www.ebay.com/itm/WW2-Imperial-Japanese-Army-Type-97-Precise-Altimeter-EXCELLENT/231991218110?_trksid=p2050601.c100574.m4253&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D37338%26meid%3D02cadc46301440af9ecfa8853703568b%26pid%3D100574%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D272367298775