©
1997 Joao Paulo Julião Matsuura
Aichi E16A Zuiun (Auspicious Cloud)
Allied Code Name: "Paul"
(Scanned from René J. Francillion "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" - Putnam - 1979)
UNITS ALLOCATED
301st, 634th and Yokosuka Kokutais.
TECHNICAL DATA
Description: Single-engined twin-float reconnaissance seaplane. All-metal structure with stressed-skin covering, wooden wingtips and tailplane, and fabric-covered control surfaces.
Accommodation: Crew of two in tandem enclosed cockpits.
- One Mitsubishi MK8A Kinsei 51 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,300 hp for take-off, 1,200 hp at 3,000 m and 1,100 hp at 6,200 m, driving a three-blade constant-speed metal propeller (prototypes and early production aircraft).
- One Mitsubishi MK8D Kinsei 54 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,300 hp for take-off, 1,200 hp at 3,000 m and 1,100 hp at 6,200 m, driving a three-blade constant-speed metal propeller (late production aircraft).
- One Mitsubishi MK8P Kinsei 62 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radial, rated at 1,560 hp for take-off, 1,340 hp at 2,100 m and 1,190 hp at 5,800 m, driving a three-blade constant-speed metal propeller (E16A2 prototype).
- Two wing-mounted 7.7 mm Type 97 machine-guns and one flexible rear-firing 7.7 mm Type 92 machine-gun (first prototype).
- Two wing-mounted 20 mm Type 99 Model 2 cannon and one flexible rear-firing 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun (all aircraft except first prototype).
- External load: 180 kg of bombs (first prototype), or 250 kg of bombs (all other E16A1s).
