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To: BenLurkin
Very cool

Now bonus Aviation trivia points to the first Freeper that can correctly answer the following:

Why was the Japanese Zero was called the "Zero"?....tic,tic,tic

6 posted on 10/10/2005 9:47:26 AM PDT by tophat9000 (This bulletin just in:"Chinese's Fire Drill's" will now be known as "New Orleans' Hurricane Drill's")
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To: tophat9000

On July 31, the aircraft was formally accepted for production as the Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter Model 11. The popular name was Reisen (which was an abbreviation for Rei Sentoki, or Zero Fighter), so chosen for its type number which was 0, standing for the last digit of the current Japanese year, which was 2600 in the Japanese calendar.


7 posted on 10/10/2005 9:56:27 AM PDT by GoforBroke
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