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Nihon N-70 Cygnus
__NOTOC__ The Nihon N-70 Cygnus is a 1970s Japanese single-seat powered sailplane designed and built by the College of Science and Technology at the Nihon University. Design and development Design of the Cygnus started in April 1970 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, building the aircraft started in June 1970, the Cygnus flew for the first time on 16 December 1971. The Cygnus is a cantilever low-wing monoplane with a single spar wooden wing with plywood and aircraft fabric covering, the fuselage is an oval-section semi-monocoque structure covered in plywood. It is powered by a Fuji motor car engine with a two-bladed fixed-pitch wooden propeller. The pilot has an enclosed cockpit A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a Pilot in command, pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the ... with a transparent one-piece canopy. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihon University N-70 Cygnus Powered Sailplane 03
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 123.2 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
