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hopefully so! thank youHere is search results within forum topics:
I hope something useful be among results.
sheesh, I see.. I do have friends in Japan here and there, I'm sure they'd be up to help me out with it. at that point I'd need to get names of the books and materials if anything, so I'm able to source them. if you have any leads, or ever get the chance to check the books out, do let me know!Nick: You're probably going to have to go hard core and learn to read Japanese to get a significant amount of info. There are several books, but in Japanese on the J2M, and at least one in English. I've got several Japanese books on various aircraft and they are almost detailed enough that a good aircraft fabricator could come pretty close on building the structure. My books all came direct from Japan, when my dad was traveling over there for work and were very hard to find. You would do well to find and cultivate a contact in Japan to help search for them. Unfortunately,all of mine are all packed away, so I don't know if any of them cover the J2M.
I would suggest finding the books .. especially the Maru Mechanic no.43.
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thank you for the tips. currently searching far and wide to see if I manage to find some PDFs of the books. I did find one, the "Famous aircraft of the world" one. maybe with a bit of luck I find the rest too. after that, it's just a matter of ... *sigh* translation xDBTW: To help when doing online searches, use as basic nomenclature as you can, and then do slight refinements as you screen thru the first several pages of results. In this case, I'd start with " J2M aircraft book " and go from there, and then pop over to "Images" rather than "All"
oh my god thank you so much. these are absolutely great. now I just need Engine details, materials used and some tech data here and there like how the landing gear system worked.If I was him, I would start with these 3-view drawings before going into details with FAOW.
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Source: "精密図面を読む(Best Collection)" by Minoru Matsuba
Manual with drawings for Type 100, 1,450 hp. engine(Kasei-11). Not Kasei-23 for the J2M but structure and material can be known.oh my god thank you so much. these are absolutely great. now I just need Engine details, materials used and some tech data here and there like how the landing gear system worked.
these will definitely create a great basis