H-6 Bomber Aircraft Discussions
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A new and recent image or an older one from May?
Probably a new one going by the descriptions in the thread.
drunkmunky
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my god the retrofit of the nose of the h6 & h6-k....
I'm not a fan of how it looks.
I'm not a fan of how it looks.
It beats the WW2 like glasshouse it used to have. It is only an interim design until the H-20 is available anyway....
Even if the H-6I is quite well known since some time, I did not know that it actually flew and also it was only known from only one image. The profile below was drawn by a friend - J.P. Santiago - for my book "Dragon's Wings"
A WP-8 provides 93.2 kN thrust and a Rolls-Royce Spery provides 54 kN thrust. Four Spery's are about 1.2t heavier than two WP-8s. That's about 15.8% increase in thrust and 19.7% increase in mass. What exactly were they trying to accomplish with H-6I back then?
To admit, ... I don't know.