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Subject:Re: Airplane VW Engines
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:03:02 +1300

>Anyway, it is my understanding that the first VW engines (the original
>Beetle Engines during the war) were in fact already existing aircraft
>engines converted for the Beetle.

Nope. It was an original VW design. No German aircraft used boxer
engines, to my knowledge.
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