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Improved the G10N picture a little bit. I always liked it a bit better the way it looked in this picture than the blown up, 6-engined B-29 one.

So when I bought a book with this picture in it...

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/green/wave/fugaku001.html
... I decided to mess around a bit with the drawing I had.


"Original" picture...


Work in Progress with Boeing 707 nose...


Almost finished version. Looks less like a 707 nose now...


Colored Version...

HOLY MOLY !!!

Nice aircraft

You will be hearing from Boeing's legal team in the near future! And I better get to work on the B-36!

It looks more like the nose from a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod now - or a de Havilland Comet.

I like it, just one question though.....is it a deliberate design feature to put the middle engine further forward than the inboard unit on the last 2 drawings???

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Originally posted by Brockpaine
It looks more like the nose from a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod now - or a de Havilland Comet.

Or VC10!

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You will be hearing from Boeing's legal team in the near future!

Japan will make sure to drop Boeing's legal team at Boeing HQ.

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It looks more like the nose from a Hawker Siddeley Nimrod now - or a de Havilland Comet.

I had that feeling, too, when I was looking at the pictures in the book "Japanese Secret Projects" but I could not really find a proper picture of either plane so I slapped the 707 nose on there as base and worked with that.

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is it a deliberate design feature to put the middle engine further forward than the inboard unit on the last 2 drawings???

That is how the top view drawing in the JSP book indicate where those engines are and if you carefully study that picture of Muneo Hosaka above, you'll notice that those middle engines are also further forward than the inboard engines. So I did the same for my picture.

Looks more like a prop-driven B-52 to my eyes. That nose is very B-52ish.

Looks an mean peice of bombing equipment. Very cool.

Sweep the wing back, make it shoulder mounted, and it's pretty close.