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Old 01-03-2012, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by drewpee View Post
That Bouchon is a real oddity. I'd like to know why they chose to mate the RR with the 109. Was cost the mane reason (maybe surplus engines/airframes)or was there some performance gain? I remember seeing a doco on the making of the film Battle Of Britten and they used AC from the Spanish AF in allot of their footage. I thought at the time the noses of the 109's were a bit odd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano...C3%B3n_HA-1112
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