Zero designs copied from western fighters?

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Re: Zero designs copied from western fighters?

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Post by Topspeed » 17 Sep 2008, 11:33

AL Schlageter wrote:
Topspeed wrote: But I agree...I have seen no proof for the fact that Hughes claimed Zero to be copied his design, but he did claim that P-38 was copy of his earlier model of X-11 and it possibly was...even though Kelly Johnson was a genious AC designer.
Wasn't the XF-11, and the XF-12, designed to a 1943 proposal?
Sorry I meant the D-2 design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_D-2

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