JoblinTheGoblin
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- May 13, 2023
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I was thinking of more radical options, and had forgotten about this particular trope.The easiest trick for an alien space bat would be to point out that there was a lot of oil under Manchuria. If that was discovered in about 1933, the larger oil industry might well be able to produce good high octane aviation fuel. Of course, the other consequence might be no Pacific War. Thus we might be discussing Japanese aviation over 1941-5 with the same enthusiasm as we discuss Swedish aviation.
At the very least, I now have confirmation of the existence of such an individual, however important that actually is.However, from the 30's T.S. Lee believed that oil might be found where there had been long lived lakes as under Manchuria and eventually persuaded China to look in the 1950's. T.S. Lee was ethnically Mongolian but felt that he was Chinese. If he had been a Mongolian nationalist, he might have been interested in five nations living in harmony and then he only needed to persuade the IJA.
Added as edit: Probably easier to find as Li Siguang Li Siguang - Wikipedia and possibly best as J.S. Lee although https://www.jstor.org/stable/214371 gave me T.S. Lee.
Really? I've never seen this piece of information anywhere else, at least on the Anglophone internet. At the end of the day, though, it's simply a speedometer limit, and one that would exceed the level flight speed any aircraft of the time, never mind Japanese aircraft. Doesn't really give any indication of any practical, real-world capabilities. I might have to clarify on what I mean by speed, it's primarily level-flight speed, less so climb rate or diving speed.IJN was providing a speedometer of max limit 800kt (about 1,480km)/hour for the J7W1 as the jet-engined version was to come up sooner or later as the J7W2.
I have made this post under the assumption that your post is a response to both my preceding post and my dismissal of C cherry blossom 's idea for Japan to, essentially, rely on German technology. This is not a thread on German aerospace technology.Japanese scientists and engineers were quite good, more or less as good as the US and Europeans. But, during the period of the 1930s through WWII Japan was tied up in the war in China and then WWII, their focus was of necessity on the development and production of equipment needed for the respective theaters. They did not have the industrial resources needed to develop every promising new idea they came up with.