WesWorld

Just to see what people think

TYPE: recon/divebomber
ENGINE 1 x 1000 HP radial piston engine
WEIGHTS
Take-off weight 2461 kg
Empty weight 1602 kg
DIMENSIONS
Wingspan 10.95 m
Length 8.57 m
Height 3.45 m

PERFORMANCE
Max. speed 470 Km/h
Ceiling 6070 m
Range 1100 km
ARMAMENT 3 x 12,7 mm machine-guns (2 fixed forward firing, 1 flexible in the rear cockpit)
800 Kg of bombs

Compared to the Aichi D3A, I'd suspect it's too light. The engine's of similar design and power, but your aircraft has a take-off weight the same as the Val's light weight, and you're carrying over three times the warload (not counting the additional weight of the .50s vs the Val's 7.7mms). About the only place your plane is less capable is in range, where the Val has about a 30% advantage.

The Bomb load needs to be reduced, I agree the other objections arent that clear cut the Val is both larger and a carrier aircraft.

So how about this bomb load: 1x250kg or 4x75kg bombs

Based on the R-1830 and R-1820, probably 1/3 of your current light weight is going to be the engine, which is a pretty high percentage of the weight to be tied up that way. By the time you've accounted for the crew and the MGs, you're probably at 1/2 the light weight (I'm not including the ammunition for them, just the MGs and their mountings themselves). I suspect it's going to be simply too small as currently listed. I mentioned the Val because it's a plane that did the same role, had an engine of about the same size, etc.

The revised warload's an improvement.

Ah, well it was worth a try

im working on one of my projects atm lol, ill post some screan shots later to get opinions, but I think I better shrink the wings first they just look to damn big atm.

New Eclipse project?

Yes it will be when its finished, but its only in the rough draft phase atm. im still working on the tecture file for it and tweaking the wing.