Mitsubishi Kinsei


The Mitsubishi Kinsei was a 14-cylinder, air-cooled, twin-row radial aircraft engine developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan in 1934 for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Mitsubishi model designation for this engine was A8 while it was an experimental project; in service, it was known as the MK8 "Kinsei" by the Navy. In the middle of the war, the engine was adopted by Army, so it got designation Ha-112. Its unified designation code was Ha-33.

Design

Cylinder and detail design was based on the single-row, 9-cylinder air-cooled Pratt and Whitney R-1690 Hornet, but underwent numerous modifications and improvements.

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