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Old 12-03-2007, 04:54 PM
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Hmm

Tanks tended to use Maybach 12 cylinder engines.

But you are right about Daimler... the BF 109's used different varieties of Daimler-Benz inverted V12's, some with water/methanol injection and multi stage supercharging.


The FW 190's had radial engines, and BMW produced those, as well as Junkers. Daimler stuck with the inverted V12's


Tanks were almost singularly Maybach engines.


But our beloved P51D Mustang, the ultimate fighter of WWII; it had a lovely Packard produced Rolls Royce Merlin. A perfect marriage of American and English engineering, to produce one badass engine. Take that Germans!


Here's a pic of the DB601, an Daimler Benz inverted v12 from a 109

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