A6M3 Zero Design Analysis

[MIflyer]

Here's a terrific design analysis of the A6M3 done in WWII.

First 5 pages

 

[MIflyer]

And here are more pages.

 

[fubar57]

Very cool. How many pages in total?

 

[MIflyer]

Twelve total. Of course, most of these are dual pages. The ones like this they did on the B-24 and Mosquito are huge! But of course they did not have to take those apart.

I also have one on the Republic Seabee if anyone is interested.

Here are the last ones for the Hamp.

 

[tomo pauk]

Thank you very much

 

[GregP]

Here's the pdf. Good read. Plenty of things pertinent to other variants.

Thanks for starting this miflier.

 

[MIflyer]

I bought a couple of bound volumes of these magazines in the early 1990''s; they were Library of Congress Surplus, believe it or not. I scanned the most interesting articles, and as you can see from the PDF version it is hard to do a really good job of that. The downloads from the AvWeek site are a lot better in most respects. Av Week put together PDFs of some of these and offered them via e-mail but in most cases did not include the whole article!

I now have downloads of P-51, P-38, B-17. B-24, Me-262, FW-190, Mitsubishi Kinesi engine, C-82, DH 98 Mosquito. The B-24 and Mossie are two parters, about twice as long as the others. I just found the one on the P-39 the other day, which is very large with 15 double pages.

I'll be posting some of the others assuming there is interest.

 

[tomo pauk]

I'll be posting some of the others assuming there is interest.

Well, since this forum is all about cooking, knitting and stuff...

 

[Juha2]

There is interest!

juha

 

[mad_max]

I also have one on the Republic Seabee if anyone is interested.

My Father a Navy Pilot Instructor on PBY's and SNJ's had a Seabee back in my younger days. (early 60's) It was one under powered aircraft I can tell you that!

 

[XBe02Drvr]

My Father a Navy Pilot Instructor on PBY's and SNJ's had a Seabee back in my younger days. (early 60's) It was one under powered aircraft I can tell you that!

Don't you just love that Franklin engine? "AARRGHH!"