In message , "Keith Willshaw" wrote:

"Stinky Pete" wrote in message
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id est..the design for the engine was stolen from the Brits.

Not so much stolen as given away. The post war UK
government sold a small number of engines to the
USSR hoping for a larger order. All they did was
copy it.

To bad the SCO Group was not around then, eh?

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Regards,

Michael P. Reed