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[cgagan]

Great looking plane!!!!

[trent]

The plane is looking beautiful, Damawo! 

Looking forward to flying her from the Battleship Ise! 

[damawo]

note.

When we want to use light map in IL-2, we should care about area of polygon.
Large area polygon could not catch light. 
(I don't  know why. I haven't read class for light map yet. or hard coded? )
For example, there was need to split the flight deck.


[pic1]...pink boxes are position of hook for light source.

[pic2]...emitter are ignored

[pic3]...catching light

[oldschoolie]

Really looking forward to this. Great work.

[SAS~Bombsaway]

That's amazing!!!!! I cant wait to land on that lighted carrier.

[Joberg]

Wow the ships and aircraft in this thread look incredible!

[Mopat]

Incredible work, damawo!!!
We have nearly all the IJN battleship classes. Such as Kongo, Ise, Nagato, Yamato(great,even when some of WIP or early config...)only Fuso class missing-the swimming palace
Great Zuiun dive bomber. I always thinking, that where are dive brakes in the E16A? In the wings? Or in the undercarriage structure?

[damawo]

Hi Mopat.
E16A's dive brake is attached in the forward strut of the floats.
The brake is retracted to the both side like the image.


Recently I'm looking for information about the bomb mount rack in the under fuselage.
Is it  swing rod type like as Type99 bomber Val, implanted type like as mount of N1k2-ja's wing or other type?
Maybe I should go library of the National Institute for Defense Studies in japan to search the official text by Aichi Aircraft Company.

[Yeager_1946]

Excellent work, Damawo! The E16A looks amazing!

Recently I'm looking for information about the bomb mount rack in the under fuselage.
Is it  swing rod type like as Type99 bomber Val, implanted type like as mount of N1k2-ja's wing or other type?

The E16A's use as a dive bomber would suggest that it might have had a swing rod type of arrangement such as used on the Val, in order for the 250kg bomb to clear the prop in a steep dive.

The use of dive brakes in a steep dive would further increase the need for such a swing rod, but that's just my thinking. It would be good to find out for sure.

Maybe I should go library of the National Institute for Defense Studies in japan to search the official text by Aichi Aircraft Company.

I think this might be a good idea.


Although not the clearest, the photos below seem to suggest that the E16A might possibly have had a swing rod type of arrangement.

[RealDarko]

Damawo one question, the seaplanes took off from the aft deck launched by catapult and then recovered by a crane?

[damawo]

Hi Yeager_1946 Thanks for these images.
I replay japanese news again and again.
http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives/jpnews/movie.cgi?das_id=D0001300371_00000&seg_number=005
From one scene of the movie, it seems like a beam was attached at the side of oil cooler.
So I think E16A's rod is consisting of 4 beam like as Val Type22.(are (a) shadow of attached point?)
However I can't conclude from this not-clear movie.
I seek more high resolution and clear one.
 

Damawo one question, the seaplanes took off from the aft deck launched by catapult and then recovered by a crane?

Hi RealDarko.
The catapult will work by SAS engine mod without special technical addition.
However, Ise-Mod doesn't have crane recovery function now and I don't have no idea to implement it.

[RealDarko]

Hi RealDarko.
The catapult will work by SAS engine mod without special technical addition.
However, Ise-Mod doesn't have crane recovery function now and I don't have no idea to implement it.

Catapult only will be ok, after all we can land near the ship and pretend we will be hoisted back. Great mod, looking forward to it.