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Old 02-05-2007 | 11:58 AM
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Default RE: Pratt and Whitney label on Zero

A little further research indicated that the engines may have some P&W ancestry. However other sources cite that the engine was based on a license built Gnome Rhone 14. I also found that that propellor was based on a Hamilton standard design, the machine gunes were a Vickers design and I seem to remember that the cannons were either Oerlikon or Hispano.