Re: UNLIMITED Racer Project For Sale
I wonder if all that is true about LY-66mk2 Fuchou. Seems that Fokker DXXIII was a model for it.
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But the expertise acquired by the department’s engineers came in handy in 1940 when Luoyun began work on a prototype inspired by the Fokker DXXIII and struggled to come up with a workable dual coaxial propeller system: KNAW lent its helicopter team to Feng’s company, and for the next two years they would provide invaluable help to the development of the LY-66 Fuchou 復仇 (Vengeance), China’s most remarkable domestically designed plane of the war, and a superb heavy fighter who would certainly have become the workhorse of the CAF had not an even better plane come up in the meantime—the Wen 蚊, a.k.a. the Mosquito.
The concept of the Fuchou was originally inspired by a Fokker airplane, the D-XXIII, but rather than copying it, the Chinese went back to the drawing board and completely re-designed it from the ground up. The idea was to exploit to the fullest the pusher propeller design by using the available space in the nose to cram as heavy an armament as possible: four cal. 50 machine guns and two 20 mm cannons. However, the finicky twin propellers required lengthy adjustments, and the two engines' configuration made them prone to overheating. With all the glitches that had to be addressed, the aircraft wasn't ready for deployment until early 1942.
I wonder if all this story was hypothetical....that cannot fly..CG is to aft ?!
Seems to be BS; The following is a counterfactual speculation on what the history of Chinese aviation might have been, had Chinese history taken a different course in 1912. In this alternate timeline, Yuan Shikai died of kidney failure on February 24, 1912, and the changes snowballed from there.
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But the expertise acquired by the department’s engineers came in handy in 1940 when Luoyun began work on a prototype inspired by the Fokker DXXIII and struggled to come up with a workable dual coaxial propeller system: KNAW lent its helicopter team to Feng’s company, and for the next two years they would provide invaluable help to the development of the LY-66 Fuchou 復仇 (Vengeance), China’s most remarkable domestically designed plane of the war, and a superb heavy fighter who would certainly have become the workhorse of the CAF had not an even better plane come up in the meantime—the Wen 蚊, a.k.a. the Mosquito.
The concept of the Fuchou was originally inspired by a Fokker airplane, the D-XXIII, but rather than copying it, the Chinese went back to the drawing board and completely re-designed it from the ground up. The idea was to exploit to the fullest the pusher propeller design by using the available space in the nose to cram as heavy an armament as possible: four cal. 50 machine guns and two 20 mm cannons. However, the finicky twin propellers required lengthy adjustments, and the two engines' configuration made them prone to overheating. With all the glitches that had to be addressed, the aircraft wasn't ready for deployment until early 1942.
I wonder if all this story was hypothetical....that cannot fly..CG is to aft ?!
Seems to be BS; The following is a counterfactual speculation on what the history of Chinese aviation might have been, had Chinese history taken a different course in 1912. In this alternate timeline, Yuan Shikai died of kidney failure on February 24, 1912, and the changes snowballed from there.
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The engine might be worth something (slow nosecase?), or it might just be a clapped out pile of parts. Who knows? 
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