Ah okay, that makes more sense. It seems the original description was incorrect.
Justo, do you know where I can find more information regarding Japanese centrifugal-type jet engines? I’m curious how they compare to the axial series.
and thanks for the amazing images and information, as always
The Koreans and Japanese (not to mention the Chinese) are able to churn out warships by the dozen more cheaply than what the US yards can. The 30DX and Daegu frigates, especially come to mind compared to the FFG(X).
Most people attribute to this to Koreans and Japanese building to commercial...
http://wind.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_en.html
https://gcaptain.com/wind-challenger-next-generation-bulk-carrier/
They haven't kept their website up to date. They were supposed to do some more tests by 2017 - does anyone know of recent research papers or other info on the project?
Not much in the way of details yet. Apparently in the same class as the USN's XLUUV program, though requirements haven't been nailed down yet. Presumably will be operated by the MSDF, that is, if it ever manages to emerge from the unholy mess that is the Acquisition Technology and Logistics...
Posted in J-Aircraft.com yesterday:
Dear Members of J-Aircraft.com,
Once again, I am afraid it is my sad duty to inform you of the saddest news of all in this dark year of devastating loss for the aviation history fraternity.
After a 22 year battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, our dear friend...
Evening folks. I hope that someone on here may help me. I was trawling through a copy of Air Enthusiast from June 1973, as you do, and I came across a brief story about the Japanese NAL. Apparently they had formalised a basic specification for an experimental VTOL aircraft, of which two examples...
From Ronnie Serrano on the "Project Terminated" page on Facebook:
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=876967599032670&set=gm.646696872124265&type=1&theater
Hi!
Japan and the US have agreed to launch joint research on high-speed trimaran.
The Japanese Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 4 March that it had signed a preliminary agreement on joint research into a high-speed trimaran with the Pentagon.
The announcement followed the signing of a...
I thought we already had a thread on these, but I must have been wrong.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201404060014
IMAGE CREDIT: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Videos created for Self-Defense Forces and New Generation Weapons Perfect Book DVD depicting a conjectural Japan Self-Defense Force in the year 2035 and a conjectural Sino-Japanese War.
http://youtu.be/OwXDPxzeVfU
http://youtu.be/ku112uQbhqs
From my dear Stingray site,
the Yomiuri Y-1 was a side-by-side two seat helicopter,powered by the wartime
Kamikaze-3 engine.
https://sites.google.com/site/stingrayslistofrotorcraft/yomiuri-y-1
Hi all:
one of the worst problem getting older is memory. Probably I said that before but... I don't remember...
During the Seventies I saw a publication (perhaps a Japanes "AiReview" or "Koku-Fan" but could be also an European one) dealing with Japanese Self-Defense Air Force fighters with...
This is supposedly a joint Japan/US project using the Independence class as a starting point, although it seems to me to have inherited some features from at least one MSDF related project of the late '80s/early 90s. First of class to enter service in 2018, which would suggest that it's to be...
After Japan's defeat in World War II, the manufacture of local aircraft was banned. It was only after the publication of a "Memorandum about domestic air carrier operation" issued in 1950 that development of a local civil aviation could be restarted. Then in 1952, an aviation act was...
The N-52 was the first private aircraft built in Japan after the war. It was a low-wing, side-by-side seating cantilever monoplane sport aircraft of mixed construction built by the Okamura Mfg. Co. It started as a design experiment under the supervision of Hidemasa Kimura, a professor at Nihon...
One of the first news stories on it from February 2012:
Construction firm aims at space elevator in 2050
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The Yomiuri Shimbun
It may be possible to travel to space in an elevator as early as 2050, a major construction company has...
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