The Nakajima G10N Fugaku was a planned Japanese ultra-long-range heavy bomber designed during World War II. The project was conceived by Nakajima Aircraft Company head Chikuhei Nakajima. The design had straight wings and contra-rotating four-blade propellers.
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- Crew: 6 to 10
- Length: 44.98 m
- Wingspan: 64.98 m
- Height: 8.77 m
- Wing area: 352.01 m2
- Max takeoff weight: 160,000 kg
- Powerplant: 6 × Nakajima Ha-54 36-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engines, 3,700 kW (5,000 hp) each at take-off
- Propellers: 6-bladed contra-rotating constant speed propellers, 4.5 m diameter
To save weight, some of the landing gear was to be jettisoned after takeoff being unnecessary on landing with emptied bomb load, as had been planned on some of the more developed German Amerika Bomber competing designs.
It used six engines, as with the later Amerika bomber design competitors, to compensate for nearly all German aircraft engines being limited to 1,500 kW maximum output levels apiece.
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Development was initiated in January 1943 and a design and manufacturing facility built in Mitaka, Tokyo. Nakajima’s 4-row 36-cylinder 5,000 hp Ha-54 (Ha-505) engine was abandoned as too complex. Project Z was cancelled in July 1944, and the Fugaku was never built.
