Mitsuoka H-1 / D338

Old Wombat · July 03, 2026, 08:28:01 PM

RAFF-35 · July 04, 2026, 12:12:19 AM

It's a shame we can't like/ love posts here. That looks so cool

buzzbomb · July 04, 2026, 12:42:43 AM

too cool

Dizzyfugu · July 04, 2026, 03:10:16 AM

Odd, but cool.

zenrat · July 04, 2026, 03:39:21 AM

Noice.

Andrew Gorman · July 06, 2026, 06:05:42 PM

It's done and phone camera pictures posted in the Finished Builds. I had fun with this one. When I picked up the kit at the local scrap store I just picked it up because its just so odd. I didn't see a way to make it a jet because the horizontal stabilizer would get in the way and melt. First thought was just to sweep back the kit wings, but playing with paper dolls I wasn't happy with the look. But delta wing aircraft don't need a horizontal stabilizer... I had fun with this build, and since I never really wanted to build a nazi or Imperial Japanese airplane, an ATAIU bird seemed an obvious choice. I saw that picture of two ATAIU-SEA Raidens in an Air Classics magazine when I was a kid and it has always stuck with me. Too many "A"s in that livery for my decal stash... On to the One Week Build!

Andrew Gorman · July 06, 2026, 07:04:44 PM

And I did swap the very chunky kit wing floats for a more streamlining looking pair from an Airmodel vacuform float set.

63cpe · July 06, 2026, 10:27:17 PM

Haha, great looking machine. Odd but cool

David aka 63CPE

Old Wombat · July 07, 2026, 12:20:38 AM

And a wonderful, if bizarre, thing it is, too!

PR19_Kit · July 07, 2026, 02:03:10 AM

It looks pretty darn smart for sure. With that wing area it'd fly in ground effect ('sea effect?'

) for EVER!

Old Wombat · July 07, 2026, 02:09:36 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 07, 2026, 02:03:10 AMIt looks pretty darn smart for sure. With that wing area it'd fly in ground effect ('sea effect?' ) for EVER!

Japanese Ekranoplan!

Andrew Gorman · July 07, 2026, 06:40:23 PM

Kit:
Do you mean it would never get out of the ground effect with the big wings? I was just going with my own aesthetic and available parts. Never considered it as an ekranoplan until now.

PR19_Kit · July 08, 2026, 04:42:49 AM

Quote from: Andrew Gorman on July 07, 2026, 06:40:23 PMDo you mean it would never get out of the ground effect with the big wings? I was just going with my own aesthetic and available parts. Never considered it as an ekranoplan until now.

No, I meant with that amount of wing area it'd never manage to land.

It'd manage some HUGE altitude for sure as well!

Diamondback · Reply #43 - Re: Mitsuoka H-1 / D338

Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 08, 2026, 04:42:49 AM
Quote from: Andrew Gorman on July 07, 2026, 06:40:23 PMDo you mean it would never get out of the ground effect with the big wings? I was just going with my own aesthetic and available parts. Never considered it as an ekranoplan until now.

No, I meant with that amount of wing area it'd never manage to land. It'd manage some HUGE altitude for sure as well!

Sounds like something a prof, a frat brother and I cooked up. Planform was a 400' equilateral triangle. Frat bro built it in X-Plane and the only way he could land it was to stall it out into the ocean, the ground effect was that strong!

Andrew Gorman · Reply #44 - Re: Mitsuoka H-1 / D338

I just wanted to make it as big as possible, and the delta far enough back to plausibly lose the horizontal stabilizer. I probably could have shortened the wingspan an inch or inch and a half on either side, but much more than that it would start looking like a delta wing fighter. I don't like cutting down found parts and losing size.