Nakajima G8N « Renzan » heavy bomber ("Rita")

[T-50]

Are there any pictures of the insite interior of the G8N Rita,its a marvelous bomber with a great potential!
sad it never reached operational service.

 

[Stargazer]

Are there any pictures of the insite interior of the G8N Rita,its a marvelous bomber with a great potential!
sad it never reached operational service.

There are very few books or monographies dedicated to the G8N contrary to other Nakajima types.

Koku-Fan #90 was devoted to both the G5N and the G8N. But while there are a few inside pics of the former, I was only able to locate one picture of the Renzan's guts!!

 

[T-50]

nice picture stargazer! I presume this is the bomb bay? it look like it.

 

[blackkite]

Renzan's model and pictures.

http://search.babylon.com/imageres.php?iu=http://matever.com/archives/photo/2010/04/rennzan%25E3%2582%25A44-thumb.jpg&ir=http://matever.com/archives/ct02making/_1721.html&ig=http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdCycG1z4TWTRPcZQBHPW--9J8rejEJ-ayOSnpuyAi94-P4BcNfUDrQg&h=300&w=400&q=%E9%80%A3%E5%B1%B1%E3%80%80%E5%86%85%E9%83%A8%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F&babsrc=HP_ss

 

[blackkite]

Hi! Renzan.

 

[T-50]

Nice pics of good quality I must say Blacckite san!

 

[blackkite]

Hi T-50 san!
Please enjoy larger image. You can see some interior equipments of Renzan.

 

[blackkite]

Next large image.

 

[Johnbr]

This took a lot of looking.

 

[blackkite]

Wow amazing!! Thanks for sharing us. This is what we need. This picture must be taken in Newark airport in New York city after the war.
Renzan had a rather modern cockpit.

 

[T-50]

Hi T-50 san!
Please enjoy larger image. You can see some interior equipments of Renzan.

Thank you Blacckite san! its for its time a very advanched bomber design and its cockpit is of a nice and clean design.

 

[blackkite]

Hi! Renzan's nose was something like B-25. Engine nacelle shape was similar to B-29.
Nakajima designed steel structure Renzan-kai to save aluminum alloy, but didi not realized.

 

[blackkite]

Renzan and Ki74 shipping from Japan to the United States.

 

[airman]

nice job blackkite !!! B)

 

[T-50]

Im curious what happened with the G8N in the USA,Im afraid it was selled for scrap.

 

[royabulgaf]

I recall reading an article about it in IIRC, Air Classics. The tested aircraft was a Japanese flight test aircraft. Crew stations were stuck here and there, and poorly organized. They could never get all four engines to work right at the same time, and the brakes were so bad that they were replaced by B=24 units. They shortly realized they had nothing to learn from the airplane, and junked it.

 

[blackkite]

Yes. Turbochargers's low reliability was still serious problem at the day. :'(

 

[Johnbr]

I wonder if this the aircraft that the Japanese wanted the Ju-222 engine for.

 

[Stargazer]

New topic split from the old "Japanese Projects before 1945" thread.

 

[Johnbr]

I found a big photo of the Cockpit.Hope you all like it like I do.
Specifications (G8N1) Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War[2]
General characteristics

• Crew: ten
• Length: 22.94 m (75 ft 3 in)
• Wingspan: 32.54 m (106 ft 9 in)
• Height: 7.20 m (23 ft 7 in)
• Wing area: 112 m² (1,205 ft²)
• Empty weight: 17,400 kg (38,400 lb)
• Loaded weight: 26,800 kg (59,100 lb)
• Max. takeoff weight: 32,150 kg (70,900 lb)
• Powerplant: 4 × Nakajima NK9K-L Homare 24 18-cylinder radial engines, 1,491 kW (2,000 hp) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 576 km/h (358 mph)
• Range: 7,250 km (4,500 miles)
• Service ceiling: 10,200 m (33,500 ft)
• Rate of climb: 457 m/min (1,500 ft/min)
• Wing loading: 239 kg/m² (49 lb/ft²)
• Power/mass: 0.22 kW/kg (0.14 hp/lb)

Armament

• 2× 20 mm Type 99 cannon in each dorsal, ventral, and tail turrets
• 2× 13.2 mm (.51 in) Type 2 machine guns in nose turret
• 2× 13.2 mm (.51 in) Type 2 machine gun in fuselage sides

 

[Johnbr]

Do not no why they took the color out of it.

 

[Johnbr]

http://silverhawkauthor.com/japanese-warplanes-of-the-second-world-war-preserved-3-nakajima-to-yokosuka-imperial-japanese-army-air-service-and-imperial-japanese-navy-air-service_491.html?printable_version=true
Nakajima C6N1 Saiun (Iridescent Cloud) carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, codenamed "Myrt". At least four Nakajima C6N Saiun came to the USA, (Serial No. 4161), USAAF FE-4803 is currently stored with the NASM, FE-4804 was scrapped at Wright Field, FE-4808 was scrapped at Newark, and FE-4809 was scrapped at Middletown
Nakajima G8N1 Renzan, heavy bomber (code named Rita), taken as a war prize following the Japanese surrender and painted in United States Army Air Forces markings, USAAF FE-2210. This aircraft was scrapped at Wright-Patterson AFB

 

[T-50]

Hi I m searching for test results of the testing of the Nakajima G8N bomber in the US.Especially about the Hitachi type 92 superturbochargers of this plane.I'm looking for these results because I heared very different story's about this.Some sayed they were terrible and some other says the Hitachi -92was not so bad .