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Aichi Ha-70

Field	Value
name	Ha-70
image	File:Db610a.jpg
caption	DB 610 gearbox end, showing same two-engine arrangement
engine_type	Piston X 2 inverted V12 aircraft engines
national_origin	Japan
manufacturer	Aichi Kokuki
first_run	1945
major_applications	Yokosuka R2Y
developed_from	Aichi Atsuta

The Aichi Ha-70 was a compound engine composed of two 1,700 hp 12-cylinder liquid-cooled inverted V-12 Aichi Atsuta aircraft engines mounted to a common gearbox. The only aircraft powered by the Ha-70 was the Yokosuka R2Y, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) prototype reconnaissance aircraft that was designed and built near the end of World War II.

Design and development

In common with Daimler-Benz, Aichi Kokuki KK joined two Aichi Atsuta engines to drive a single propeller through a combining gearbox in very similar fashion to the Daimler Benz DB 606 (two Daimler-Benz DB 601 engines coupled to a gearbox),

The Yokosuka R2Y prototype reconnaissance aircraft required a new engine of 3,400 hp and after studying the Daimler-Benz DB 606A-2 engine that powered the Heinkel He 119 single-engine reconnaissance bomber, Aichi determined that the required horsepower could be attained by coupling two Atsuta engines with a common gearbox. To obtain the required power the Atsuta would require up-rating by at least 300 hp horsepower; Aichi continued to improve the Atsuta 32, eventually extracting the required 1,700 hp

The two inverted Vee Atsuta engines were mounted side-by-side, each rotated outboard from the centre-line so that the inner banks were upright, with sufficient room between them for the exhaust manifolds. The engines were attached to a gearbox that combined the two separate engine drives into a single output shaft.

Application

Fitted to the R2Y the Ha-70 was mounted behind the pilot, requiring a long drive shaft to drive the nose-mounted gear box that mounted the six-bladed propeller.

Specifications

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References

Notes

Bibliography

Monogram Close-Up 13
R. J. Francillon, Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War (1970 Putnam & Company) SBN 370 00033 1

References

[[Daimler-Benz DB 606]]
The First Naval Technical Arsenal, August 22, 1945
Wilkinson, Stephan. (Jan 2003). "With the Noise of a Stone Crusher". Popular Science.

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