Various Rikugun Designs and Prototypes

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Hi,

Rikugun Kogiken plan II and III land based light bombers
Rikugun Kogiken plan VI land based heavy bomber
Rikugun Kogiken plan IV reconnaissance aircraft
 
Japanese stuff (Post 3 )
Probably Tachikawa projects, Unknown source ...
 

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The two fighters in the first image are Rikugun "Kogiken" fighter designs. The top is the "B" type and the bottom one the "A" type. Both existed only as paper projects.


Justo Miranda said:
Hi,

Could anybody help me identify these projects?
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hesham said:
Thanks lark,
but there are a really projects,such as :
Rikugun Kogiken plan II and III land based light bombers
Have you seen the Unicraft model of the Plan III at http://www.unicraft.biz/on/kogiken-3/kogiken-3.htm ? (this is a twin-fuselage beautiful plane)
 
hesham said:
Thanks lark,

but there are a really projects,such as :

Rikugun Kogiken plan II and III land based light bombers
Rikugun Kogiken plan VI land based heavy bomber
Rikugun Kogiken plan IV reconnaissance aircraft

Excellent my dear Tophe,

believe me I forgot them at all,and from the site you mentioned it,
the Rikugun Plan III land based light bomber;

http://www.unicraft.biz/on/kogiken-3/kogiken-3.htm
 

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Hi,

here is the Rikugun Kogiken Plan I Type A experimental
aircraft project.

http://www.unicraft.biz/on/kogiken-1/kogiken-1.htm
 

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Kind of a Japanese Airacobra... but where's the air intake? ??? ???
 
Kind of a Japanese Airacobra... but where's the air intake?

following the unicraft link you can see a dorsal intake that was not included in hesham's posted profile
 
The original drawings for this project do not show any air intakes, so it was decided not to "invent" them. Of course, in reality, it would've have had them... somewhere. Perhaps on the starboard side? ;)
 
The various Kogiken aircraft were discussed in the first Japanese Secret Projects book from Midland. However, not all of them were illustrated.

Cheers,

Ed


airman said:
wow, i hope to see these of next issue of japanese projects of Midland ! B)
 
The Kogiken Plan I Type A may have looked like the Bf 110 but there is no evidence to support there was any influence on the Kogiken designers by it. I tend to think the inspiration came more from the Mitsubishi Otori built and flown in 1936 (around the same time as the Bf 110 was in development/testing).

Cheers,

Ed


Winston said:
Plan no.1 B looks a lot like a Bf110 any relation?
 
Yes Ed's "JAPANESE SECRET PROJECTS EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT OF THE IJA AND IJN 1939-1945" (ISBN 978-1-85780-317-4) has beautiful colored drawings and detail explanation of these aircrafts.
Ed thought us the existence of "The story of IJA's aircrafts plan(日本陸軍機の計画物語)".(Aviation Journal 1980, stop the publication).the source of the drawings of these aircrafts.
We are waiting for his second volume of "JAPANESE SECRET PROJECTS EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT OF THE IJA AND IJN 1939-1945". ;)
 
Hikoki1946 said:
The Kogiken Plan I Type A may have looked like the Bf 110 but there is no evidence to support there was any influence on the Kogiken designers by it. I tend to think the inspiration came more from the Mitsubishi Otori built and flown in 1936 (around the same time as the Bf 110 was in development/testing).

Cheers,

Ed


Winston said:
Plan no.1 B looks a lot like a Bf110 any relation?


Thanks for the clarification! :)
 
Topic consolidated with posts from the "Japanese Projects before 1945" thread.
 
Also from the Russian site;


Rikugun Type A
Rikugun Plane II
Rikugun Plane V
Rikugun Plane VIII
 

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Hi! It's very similar original drawing, but little different.
Nose, rudder......... Sorry for low quality.
Source : The IJA's projected aircraft story by famous Nario Ando.(日本陸軍機の計画物語)
 

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My dear Blackkite,

can you ID those Projects in reply # 1,and thanks ?.
 
Hi!
1. The IJA Air Technical Research Institute(日本陸軍究所, Kogiken) planned twin engine light bomber tentative plan3 with ducted
spinner and forced cooling fan..
2. Speculative drawing of Manpi(Manshu Hikoki, 満州飛行機) strategic reconnaissance aircraft.
3. The IJA Air Technical Research Institute planned Light bomber tentative plan2.
 
Many thanks to you my dear Blackkite.
 
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Looking at the existing three-sided view of this plane, I don't think this configuration provides enough cooling for the rear engine.
This is because the hot air after the cooling of the front engine covers the rear engine.
To ensure that the rear engine is cooled, for example, all the hot air after cooling the front engine flows to the lower side of the wing, and the cooling air intake of the rear engine is installed on the upper surface of the wing. So box picture needs little modification. Box picture is good, but model is......
Anyway it is still better than the desperate difficulty of cooling the fourth row of cylinders of the Fuji Ha-54 engine.
 
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As your 2nd picture says the the Kogiken plan Ⅷ high speed reconnaissance airplane was based off the plan VI heavy bomber. Here is the actual drawing of that airplane: (my notes identify it as the Rikugun Army Experimental Model 7 Heavy Bomber
 

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