[norton]

Bump 23.
Only similarity I know of between Zero (A6M?) and Hellccat (Bethpage Boiler Works) was low wing/wide gear track versus Wildcat's midwing/narrow track.

sources anyone?

[tanknetter]

sources anyone?

Sources already posted above. I think you misinterpreted the point tho. The Zero wasn't reverse-engineered with its technology incorporated into the Hellcat. It was reverse-engineered to tell the designers at Grumman the A6M's engineering tradeoffs (incredibly nimble, but lacking armor and self-sealing fuel tanks, for instance) so that they could improve their design(s) to counter it effectively.