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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
Well, sorta. The Hellcat design was refined on the basis of test flights of the captured Zero. However, design work on the Hellcat began in June 1941 with the prototype making its first flight on 26th June 1942 about the time when the Akutan Zero was recovered and sent to the US for evaluation.
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Ah but would the Hellcat have been as effective without the knowledge we got from the Zero though?