Hello

CORSNING said:

warbirdperformance,

1. I see the moderator needed to remove part of your post. If you are
not able to post the site on this thread, I would very much appreciate
you sending me a PM with the information.

2. What aircraft is the information for, posted in your Post #3?

Laurelix and all,
In my opinion the information published in the TAIC reports is arguably
the best overall information presently available to us on the war emergency
performance of "well tuned" Japanese aircraft using a good 92 octane fuel.
It is true that late in the Pacific war the Japanese were forced to use a
tree sap fuel of 85-87 octane rating.

I have read somewhere that the IJNAF did have 100 octane that they used
for test aircraft.

I have found that you do have to be patient and willing to revise (correct)
or update new information when searching through the TAIC reports.
For instance, I only had the December 1944 / March 1945 test reports
of the Ki.43-II for the longest time. They listed max. speed as 347 mph./
20,000 ft. and max. climb rate at 3,590 fpm./8,000 ft. About a year ago I
came across the May 1945 (revised) report stating max. speed as 333 mph./
19,100 ft. and max. climb at 3,365 fpm./8,000ft.
The May 1945 test report 107A of the N1K1-J lists the aircraft as low-wing
monoplane. Max. speed is listed as 416 mph./19,000 ft. I believe this is the
report for the N1K2-J. The March 1945 report lists the aircraft as a low-mid-
wing monoplane.

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Laurelix said:

japanese manuals state the performance at 92 octane. plus TAIC is just a calculation

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CORSNING said:

warbirdperformance,

1. I see the moderator needed to remove part of your post. If you are
not able to post the site on this thread, I would very much appreciate
you sending me a PM with the information.

2. What aircraft is the information for, posted in your Post #3?

Laurelix and all,
In my opinion the information published in the TAIC reports is arguably
the best overall information presently available to us on the war emergency
performance of "well tuned" Japanese aircraft using a good 92 octane fuel.
It is true that late in the Pacific war the Japanese were forced to use a
tree sap fuel of 85-87 octane rating.

I have read somewhere that the IJNAF did have 100 octane that they used
for test aircraft.

I have found that you do have to be patient and willing to revise (correct)
or update new information when searching through the TAIC reports.
For instance, I only had the December 1944 / March 1945 test reports
of the Ki.43-II for the longest time. They listed max. speed as 347 mph./
20,000 ft. and max. climb rate at 3,590 fpm./8,000 ft. About a year ago I
came across the May 1945 (revised) report stating max. speed as 333 mph./
19,100 ft. and max. climb at 3,365 fpm./8,000ft.
The May 1945 test report 107A of the N1K1-J lists the aircraft as low-wing
monoplane. Max. speed is listed as 416 mph./19,000 ft. I believe this is the
report for the N1K2-J. The March 1945 report lists the aircraft as a low-mid-
wing monoplane.

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warbirdperformance said:

Hello, everyone. It is my first post.

I am researching Japanese aircrafts' performance and these data were collected from National Diet Library, library of Difense Ministry and National Archives of Japan (and netsurfing XD). If you are interested in Japanese planes' actual flight performance test, please visit my website.
I hope you guys enjoy it.

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MiTasol said:

Welcome aboard

I especially enjoyed your article on the Silver Spitfire and was pleased to see the reason it has not moved for almost a month was that it is on display at the museum. A great article - even after being sometimes mis-translated by a couple of web translation services.

Your site will be visited again regularly by me

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