Tachikawa Ki-94 II high altitude fighter for FS2002. An orginal multi-resolution design by Gerald Lindell & David C. Copley.  
FS2002 version 1.0
21 Jan 2002

Installation and Notes

1. Unzip the file ki-94-ii.zip in FS2002's 'Aircraft' folder.  Several sub-folders will also be created.  
 
2. The spoiler key ('/') opens and closes the canopy.  Use the panel switches to turn the lights on and off.

3. If you have FS2002 set to full realism (all sliders to the right) and you do NOT have autorudder checked, this aircraft is VERY difficult to taxi, take-off and land, as its propeller produces tremendous forces.  Hint: scale back the P-factor to 50-75% until you have gotten to know the plane.

This package is FREEWARE.  No parts of this plane may be used or files altered without our permission.  New skins can be done without permission.  Although we have done extensive testing we do not guarantee anything.  Use this plane at your own risk!

Be sure to visit David Copley's web page www.kazoku.org/xp-38n for great P-38 planes and info.  See my site dedicated to my father-in-law, Ray Johnson, who flew P-38's for the 67th fs, www.members.tripod.com/warbirdlover/index.html.  Check out gramps site at flightsimmers.net/airbase/gramps/MAIN.html

Any updates of this plane can be found on the major sim download sites.

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Credits

Model by Gerald Lindell (jlindell@tds.net) with some help from David C. Copley.  Many thanks to Andrew C. Wai for all his "tips and pointers" and to the guys in the VB forums who also helped.

Flight model and damage profile by David C. Copley (db@kazoku.org)

Ki-84 panel by Christian Graef (Christian.Graef@t-online.de) modified to make the Ki-94 II panel by G. Lindell

Special "Ki-94" sounds by David C. Copley (modified from CFS2's stock 'George' sounds)

Textures by "Gramps" Anthony Sullenger (gramps84@yahoo.com)

Dr. Akio Hasegawa provided technical information, drawings, blueprints, diagrams from his father Tatsuo Hasegawa who designed this plane.  Tatsuo Hasegawa is alive and well in Japan.  This project is dedicated to him since he never got to see his design fly.  It was scheduled for it's first flight on the day Japan surrendered and the plane was taken to the US.

Plane information

The Tachikawa Ki-94 II was designed as a high altitude fighter for shooting down the B-29's which were bombing Japan.  It used an orthodox outline but with several new ideas.  It had a laminar flow wing (TH airfoil) with high aspect ratio, pressurized cabin, and used a 18-cylinder, high-power Ha44-12 (Ha219; 2,450 horsepower) radial engine that was turbosupercharged with a Ru204 in the underbelly.  The tail wings were mounted high on the fuselage to be away from the turbulence from the wings for better response.  

It measured 14 meters in span and 12 meters in length and its maximum loaded weight was 6,400 kg.  The theoretical performance was 750 km/h (466 mph) at 10,000 meters.  It was to have an endurance of 40 minutes at 9,000 meters at full power in addition to 1.53 hours at cruising speed.  The formidable armament was two each, wing mounted 30mm cannons and two each, wing mounted 20mm cannons.  It was a very large fighter plane similar to the P-47 Thunderbolt but was 3,100 lbs. lighter and had 23% more horsepower.  Because of the detailed information Tatsuo Hasegawa provided us through his son Dr. Akio Hasegawa we feel this plane should fly very closely to the design.  We've worked hard to make it fly correctly.  How many sim plane designers get to work with the actual plane designer as we were!  
