Unknown Nakajima WW II Designs

[Justo Miranda]

Many thanks

 

[Raa]

I would also like to see an exact three side view drawing.
However, the owner of these drawings is stubborn and will not show a drawing as a publishing company by any means.
The owner said that this is useless possession.
I cannot understand at all why he takes such an attitude indeed.
Any way, please enjoy larger images. ;D
Pusher fighter engine cooling was a difficult problem. I can't understand how to cool the engine from this drawing. Take cooling air from small slit? Perhaps air intake area was to small compared with Senden's design.

I was surprised.

The original link to the site was dead, so I checked it through the Web Archive. It turned out to be the website of one of the two individuals I had previously contacted regarding Fugaku documents.

What I’m about to say is somewhat personal, so please don’t take it too seriously

As far as I know, there are two private individuals in Japan who possess original Fugaku documents. Unfortunately, one of them is… difficult, to put it mildly.

The first person I met was the president of an automotive maintenance company. He is one of the two who own Fugaku documents. He kindly agreed to let me view them. However, he asked me not to take any photographs. The reason was that the documents had belonged to his late father and were part of his inheritance, so he did not wish to make them public. To be honest, I would have preferred to photograph them, but I understood his reasoning and respected his wishes. He was a genuinely kind person. When I left, he even drove me to the nearest station.

In contrast, the other individual behaved in a far less admirable way. I contacted him via Twitter, and he not only refused my request outright but responded with sarcasm and condescension. To be clear, I am not upset simply because he declined my request. What bothered me was his arrogant and self-righteous attitude.

Rather than replying directly to my message, he repeatedly posted new tweets to express his stance. According to him, “there is nothing to show to complete strangers,” and “there is no benefit to us in showing it.” When blackkite emailed him in the past, he reportedly referred to the documents as a “useless possession.” Yet he continues to hold them—one could even say monopolize them—and frequently posts images on Twitter to collect likes and reposts. At times, he even adds hashtags along the lines of “something my followers definitely don’t have,” which feels rather distasteful.

In other words, he clearly understands the value of the documents. But instead of sharing them for historical purposes, he keeps them private while using selective images to satisfy a rather trivial desire for attention. For him, the Fugaku documents do not seem to be historical artifacts, but trophies. And judging from blackkite’s message back in 2013, his stance has not changed in all these years. I doubt he will ever make the materials public.

It is simply unfortunate when important historical sources are effectively monopolized by someone so uncooperative and self-centered. One cannot help but wonder whether the Fugaku and other Nakajima aircrafts documents will ever truly see the light of day.

Again, this is just a personal grievance, so please don’t read too much into it

 

[blackkite]

I know one more person who has Fugaku design drawing in Kushiro Hokkaido.
This fact was reported in Kushiro news paper.
I tried to contact him but no response.

 

[elmayerle]

The twin-boom pusher design seems to share some background with the Mitsubishi J4M1, especially the early concept with the streamline shape rather than a bubble canopy as appears later.