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To: C19fan

This bomber operated on the Bf109 engines? Weren’t those fighters?


9 posted on 12/21/2016 7:14:36 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone; C19fan

The famed Merlin engine powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, P-51, Mosquito, and the Lancaster bomber. Wright and Pratt-Whitney engines, of the same types, were used in both fighters and bombers by the US in WWII.

and the Merlin engine was selected to replace the Daimler-Benz engine in the Spanish Air Forces versions of the ME-109 and the Heinkel 111 bomber.


11 posted on 12/21/2016 7:20:31 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: NohSpinZone

BF109 or ME109 (same thing) was a single engine fighter and a good one. Using four of the engines to make a bomber makes sense.


17 posted on 12/21/2016 7:31:17 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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