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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Shinden





Here are some images of Hasegawa's 1/48 scale Kyushu J7W Shinden. From Wikipedia "
The Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden ("Magnificent Lightning") fighter was a World War II Japanese propeller-driven aircraft prototype that was built in a canarddesign. The wings were attached to the tail section and stabilizers were on the front. The propeller was also in the rear, in a pusher configuration. It was expected to be a highly maneuverable interceptor, but only two were finished before the end of war. Plans were also drawn up for a jet-powered version (J7W2Shinden Kai) but this never left the drawing board. The J designation was used by land based fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy and W is for Watanabe factory produced (later Kyūshū).

1 comment:

Pat Tillett said...

There was really a lot of stuff on the drawing boards when the war ended... Probably a good thing!