H8K2_Emily

Title:
Name:
Kawaniši H8K2 12
Kawanishi H8K2 12
Original title:
Original Name:
二 式 飞行 艇 一二 型
Category:
Category:
reconnaissance / observation aircraft
reconnaissance / scout airplane
Producer:
Kawanishi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha in Naru Kawanishi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha, Konan
Prodoction Period:

DD.MM.1943-DD.MM.1945

Manufactured items:
Number of Produced:

112
First flight:
Maiden Flight:

DD.02.1943
Crew:

10
Basic Characteristics:

take-off and Landing:

CTOL - Conventional Take-Off and Landing

CTOL - conventional take-off and landing
Leaf arrangement:
Arrangement of Wing:

monoplane
Arrangement of the airplane:
Concept Aircraft:

Classic

conventional
Chassis:
Undercarriage:

firm

fixed
landing Gear:

ship-borne hull

flying boat
technical Data:

Empty Weight:

18280 kg

40,301 lb
Take-off Weight:

24500 kg

54,013 lb
Maximum Take-off Weight:

32500 kg

71,650 lb
Wngspan:

37,969 m

124 ft 6.83 in

Length:

28,118 m

92 ft 3in
light:

9,144 m

30 ft
Wing Area:

160.00 m 2

1722.23 ft 2

Wing Loading:

153,125 kg / m 2

31.36 lb / ft 2
Propulsion:
Category:

piston

Number of Engines:

4
Type:

MK4Q Mitsubishi Kasei 22 (Ha-32-22 ) air-cooled dvouhvězdicový čtrnáctiválec on ​​takeoff power 1380 kW, 1253 kW vh = 2100 mA 1148 kW vh = 5500 m
Propeller čtyřlistou with constant rotation speed of 3900 mm diameter .

MK4Q Mitsubishi Kasei 22 (Ha-32-22) fourteen-cylinder air-cooled twin-row radial enginess, rated at 1,850 hp for take-off, 1,680 hp at 6.89 feet and 1,540 hp at 18,045 ft,
driving four-blade metal constant-speed propellers of the diameter 12 feet 9.53 inches

Fuel Tank:
Fuel Tank Capacity:

18,800 liters

4135.4 gallons UK

Maximum Speed:

454 km / h at 5000 m

282.1 mph in 16404 ft


Cruise Speed:

296 km / h at 4000 m

183.9 mph in 13123 ft

Rate of climb:
Climb Rate:

8.1 m / s

1594.5 ft / min

Time to exit height:
Time to Climb to:

10.43 min to 5000 m

10.43 min to 16404 ft

Operational ceiling:
Service Ceiling:

8780 m

28806 ft
Range:

7153 km

4444.7 mi

Maximum Range:

8223.7 km

5110 mi
Armament:

5x movable cannon Type 99 Model 1 20 mm caliber, one at a time in the shooting towers in the front, the back and aft and lateral střelištěm
4x mobile machine gun Type 97 caliber 7.7 mm in the side windows of the fuselage
bomb load: 2x torpedo Type 91 on weight of 806 kg, respectively. bombs or depth charges weighing 2000 kg (250 kg 8x or 16x 60 kg).

Five flexible 0.79 inch Type 99 Model 1 cannons in bow, dorsal and tail turrets and two beam hatches and
four .303 flexible Type 97 machine-guns in ventral, port and starboard sides fuselage and cockpit hatches.
Bomb load: two two 1,777 lb torpedoes, or eight 551 lb bombs, or sixteen 132 lb bombs or depth-charges.
:
User States:

Japan (Imperial Naval Air Force)

Japan (Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service)

Note:

-二式飞行艇一二型- Nišiki daikei hikótei ichi ni gata - A large flying boat type 2 model 12
Allied code name: Emily.
many flying boats carried a search radar, antiship Mark VI model 1

-二式飞行艇一二型- Ni-Hiko shiki-tei ni-ichi gata - Navy Type 2 Flying Boat, Model 12
Allied Code Name: "Emily". Avionics: Mark VI Model 1 ASV radar

Sources:

Rene J. Francillon Ph.D., Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis Maryland, Reprinted 1990, ISBN-0-87021-313-X
Famous Airplanes Of The World, Kawanishi Type 2 Flying Boat, No. 68th 12/1975, Bunrin-Do, No ISBN.
William Green, War Planes of the Second World War, Flying Boats, Volume Five, MacDonald, London, Revised and Reprinted 1969, ISBN 356-01449-5
Tadeusz Januszewski and Kryzysztof Zalewski, Japońskie samoloty Marynarska 1912-1945, tiel 2, Lampart, 2000, ISBN 83-86776-00-05
Vaclav Nemecek, Military Aircraft 3 part, the second updated edition, Our Troops, Prague 1992, ISBN author