Nakajima Sakae Zero Engine
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2021
- Nakajima Sakae was a two-row 14 clylinder air-cooled radial engine used for Mitsibishi zero fighter WW II , Bult 30,233 by Makajima Aircraft Company, first rum 1939, 940hp for take off. only one original Zero fighter, A6M3 with original Sakae engine flyable in the world at planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA.
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I believe the Planes of Fame Zero is actually an A6M5. The exhaust stacks are telling. I have had the pleasure of seeing this plane up close and have seen it fly many times. The thing that strikes me most about the aircraft is it's small size compared to the allied fighters it had to face as the war went on. It really is quit delicate in comparison. Beautiful aircraft and as rare as they come.
What impressed me was the kind of range the designers got out of an aircraft that small. Missions from Rabaul to Guadalcanal and back were commonplace.
A little too much weight just from self sealing fuel tanks and inadequate armor plating in the later versions wiped out the vertical performance of the well balanced early versions.
The same fact happened with Me 109 and even FW 190, if compared to the size of allied fighters, mostly american ones...
The carburetor version of the Nakajima Sakae had no negative G fuel problem. The Zeke that we pulled out of the ocean by the Aleutians and tested had such a problem because we put it together incorrectly. There was a reliable mechanism to prevent negative G effects and the engine had the reputation as reliable in the several aircraft in which it was used. Adequate power in the very lightweight early war Zekes and Oscars but WW2 was a time of incredible aviation advances that rendered those aircraft as obsolete within two years. Earlier yet if tactics were used that mitigated their vertical and turning advantages.
The actual engine sound from out of the past 😲
that is the only zero that flies with it's real Sake engine in Chino Calif .
中島飛行機が今の富士重工で、自動車のスバルだという事はどの位伝わっているのだろうか。
How much is it known that Nakajima Aircraft is the current Fuji Heavy Industries and is a Subaru car?
Zero is made by Mitsubishi. Sakae engine is built by nakajima. Its like putting a Subaru engine in a lancer evo.
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My Mitsubishi car engine is also made in Japan, perhaps by the gran child of those that built this engine?
The signature sound if the Mitsubishi Zero-sen ♥
it's one of the best kind of engine, Thank you for your comment.
Amazingly small engine diameter of 24 inches, giving a minimal frontal area with reduced form drag.
Tsm are you sure of the diameter?? Wiki lists it as 44 inch diameter. I saw this aircraft some years ago while they were working on the tail. One of the Colonels (they are all Colonels) told me they might have to put an 1830 in. The Sakae was not 24in
OMG THIS A DREAM😍😍🇯🇵
Thank you so much.
Fatger brought back in 1944 small pieces of a Japanese aircraft crashed on either Banika, Russell Islands or Woodlark, Papua, is there an expert out tgere willing to help me indentify the model of aircraft and part?
Let's have a fly over?
Some one please correct me here as it has been a long time since I have studied the Zero. Didn't the Japanese change the engine from this to another, more powerful engine later in the war? I seem to remember that this was but one engine that powered the Zero.
The original A6M1 was powered by the Mitsubishi Zuisei, which was later changed to the Nakajima Sakae at the Imperial Japanese Navy's insistence. This became the standard powerplant from the A6M2 onwards. It was swapped much later for the 14-cylinder Mitsubishi Kasei in the A6M8 Model 64.
@@FireflyActual Thanks.I couldn't seem to remember the exact specs. Only that there was more than one engine. If I remember right. the engine changes were in response to later Allied fighters. The Japanese pilots complained about their "power deficiencies" against the new fighters. Or something like that.
@@patsmith8523 Yeah the Grumman F6F "Hellcat" had 2000HP, thats 1080-900hp more than most Zero variants, the difference in top speed wasnt enormous (a mere 60mph at wide open throttle, which no fighter could sustain for long), but the acceleration was comparatively "out of this world".
The Japanese did build more powerful variants of the Zero, and some far faster planes (N1K "George", KI-84 "Frank", KI-61 "Tony" etc) but much too late and with little to no experienced pilots (most of which were lost at Coral Sea, Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal & Midway, Rabaul and so forth) that could take advantage of the performance of these new planes.
What the Japanese sorely lacked, first and foremost, was a training program that could replace pilots, rather than powerful engines.
IMO the A6M5 would have done the job for a wee bit longer, had they had pilots to match.
@@ToreDL87 Since you mentioned it, I thought I would mention this: the Japanese flight training was patterned after the British. Since it was the British who showed them how to set it up. The irony was the Japanese faced the same problem the Brits did in the Battle of Britain. A lack of trained pilots.
@@patsmith8523 Both Germany and Japan didn't have tours or missions to complete before the pilots took a break or went to Conversion Units to pass on their experience, you were in the cockpit and on active service until the inevitable.
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Thank you, but English, please
very fine engine but too small to fight with hellcat ,hell fire.
But you have to remember, and this is a thing many forget. The A6M was developed in the 30s, the first fight was in 39. The Hellcat and other american fighters in the pacific was developed as an answer to the zero. By the time the first grumman F6F was airborn for the first time the zero had 3 years of service already. The next point the would be, why did they Not put in a more powerful engin, the easy answer is resorces, Japan did Not have the production capabilitys as the US had/have. The whole War doctrine for Japan pre War was all about quality over quantity. And during they could not Keep up production bacause lack of resorces.
The american had the conviction that larger and weighter are better, engines to put F4F or F6F - and almost all of another USA fighters - needed to have at miminum two or more times hp power to lead them to take off or flight...
They said Japan before WWII imported dozens of aero engines but I looked up the engines they used in their airplanes and none of these were in any planes at that time or were these engines rebadged as made in Japan engines like they do with somethings today
Pier Closterman wrote that the Sakae was a licence built French Gnome Rhone engine, which was notoriously unreliable. The Sakae was completely reliable, if this was a French-built engine Pearl Harbour would not have happened.
Pre ww2 Japan built bi planes under license from several countries which was the way far flung countries from the industrial west got technology. Australia included.
There is a four part series on you tube about the design and construction of the am series that is extraordinary. Mitsubishi and Nakajima competed for the engine contract also.
The Commemorative Air Force has a flying Zero, but unlike the Planes of Fame one that has the original Sakae engine, theirs uses a Pratt&Whitney R1830 engine. The CAF says the Sakae was based on studying some P&W engines sold to Japan before the war so the P&W is almost identical in size and weight, and some components are actually interchangeable.The advantage in power is that the P&W has about 100 cubic inches more in displacement and as installed in the Wildcat has a more advanced supercharger system. The Gnome engine is similar in design to both of these engines but larger than either.
@@Palaemon44 Still sounds completely different though, P&W's go "GNRRRRRR" while the Sakae goes "BLAPAPAPAPAP".
@@ToreDL87 This is always dependant on exhaust design and layout.