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Old 29th Sep 2020, 07:12
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The engines are certainly copies of the RR Nene sold to Russia by the Atlee government. Chinese copies of the Russian copies were used in some jet fighters that were sold to the Pakistan Air Force. The overhaul life was so short that the Chinese manufacturers bought a team over from Rolls Royce engines to sort out the their ins. to mm. measurements for them.
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