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1997 Joao Paulo Juliao Matsuura
Aichi M6A Seiran (Mountain Haze)
Allied Code Name: None
(Scanned from René J. Francillion "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" - Putnam - 1979)
UNITS ALLOCATED
Unknown.
(Scanned from Robert K. Mikesh's "Aichi M6A1 Seiran - Japan's Submarine-Launched Panama Canal Bomber" - Monogram Close-Up 13 - Monogram Aviation Publications - 1975 - Drawing by Thomas Hitchcock)
TECHNICAL DATA
Description: Single-engined submarine-borne attack bomber with twin detachable floats (M6A1). Single-engined land-based combat trainer with retractable undercarriage (M6A1-K). All-metal construction with fabric-covered control surfaces.
Accommodation: Crew of two in tandem enclosed cockpits.
- One Aichi AE1P Atsuta 30 or Atsuta 31 twelve-cylinder inverted-vee liquid-cooled engine, rated at 1,400 hp for take-off, 1,250 hp at 1,700 m and 1,290 hp at 5,000 m, driving a constant-speed three-blade metal propeller (M6A1 prototypes).
- One Aichi Atsuta 32 twelve-cylinder inverted-vee liquid-cooled engine, rated at 1,400 hp for take-off, 1,340 hp at 1,700 m and 1,290 hp at 5,000 m, driving a constant-speed three-blade metal propeller (M6A1 production aircraft and M6A1-K prototypes).
- 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).
- One flexible rear-firing 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun.
- Bomb-load: two 250 kg bombs, or one 800 kg or 850 kg bomb.
