T6 – They’re fantastic! Thanks for posting them.

Are you able to tell people how / where they can get them from? I’ve got flight sim loaded, ready and waiting!

Well, I know the file is available from http://www.flightsim.com and probably by now most other wellknown flight simulator webpages.

BUT I must stress that the flight model is totally inaccurate. It flys way way too fast, but hopefully this is going to be rectified in the near future by some British enthuiasts.

The panel is a photo of G-BDFH which is XR240 and is a very good rendition of the real thing, ie replacing the real instruments with the flightsim version. As to the flightmodel, I think we must appreciate that Mr.Ito’s English is not that good, but far better than our Japanese. From the emails that I received from him as the project unfolded, I can gather that the technical and history details have been lifted from another source.

After receiving the first prototype and finding that it didnt fly anything like the real thing, I sent him full details of the handling qualities (if you could call them that) of the 9, and although I tried to put it into very simple English, the air file I’m afraid is as we have it today.

This afternoon, I flew in XR241 (the yellow one) on a CAA Test Flight for a permit renewal and made some notes besides recording the actual figures. Climb Rate from a fixed start postion at 1500′ was about 800-900 feet a minute, maximum level flight at 4500′ was wait for it 89mph and the VNE dive took us up to an incredible 120mph. The gauge goes up to 140mph, but the aeroplane would never get there. As to stalling speeds, the 9 stalls at 42mph clean, 37 with take off flap and 35 with full flap. But I must stress not all 9s are the same. XR240 also tested this afternoon came out a little worse in all aspects. Take off is at about 47mph and landing well 45mph. Roll out this afternoon with 10knts from left to right was about 100yds.

Best wishes,

Martin