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Published: 2011-10-01 13:19:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 4357; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 173
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Description The SF-227 is a light fighter aircraft. Designed for maximum speed and climb ratio. Becouse engine placed backward with pusher propeller, nose is free for installation of powerful armament - 4 x 12.7 machine gun and 2 x 20 cannon.
Main disadvantage - small fuel tanks, this mean that SF-227 usualy used as point defence interceptor. For long distance flight (eskort, free hunting, rebasing) used capacious external fuel tanks
This picture is a second picture with SF-227, first here: [link]
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Comments: 4

LightspeedToVictory [2012-03-19 15:51:03 +0000 UTC]

reminds me of the Shinden ([link] ). excellent work!

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Sasha1378 [2012-01-07 19:43:27 +0000 UTC]

It reminds me of an anime aircraft, which used contrarotative propellers though.

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CarrieMoore [2011-10-31 21:33:15 +0000 UTC]

looks like a mashup between a beech starship, bf 109, j7w1, and awesomeness

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Damn-Yuki [2011-10-01 23:37:20 +0000 UTC]

Interesting design for a fighter aircraft, especially for what seems like a WWII-era fighter. I've seen several pictures and designs for similar-looking aircraft that really existed but were never used in combat, but none of them had canards. (much less swept-forward canards) Very intriguing design, my friend!

And this isn't criticism, but ideas for improvement: I think that it would be pretty cool if, instead of a single six-bladed propeller, it was powered by two contra-rotating three-bladed propellers. I'm not sure if this would really be accurate, but I think that the contra-rotating design helps to reduce torque and adds a bit more speed, so with contra-rotating propellers, this plane might be a bit easier to control, as well as a little faster and a more stable gun platform. Also, four 12.7mm MGs and two 20mm cannons is a pretty powerful armament, but I think that a slightly better option would be four 30mm cannons. (like the Messerschmidt Me-262 "Schwalbe") Four 30mm cannons has got to be one of the most devastating gun-armaments on a plane that has ever been used, and adding more firepower is NEVER a bad thing!

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