In article ,
Bill and Susan Maddux wrote:
It is called the spoils of war. Our race to Space with the USSR was also
from rocket scientist from Germany. Many of our early jet aircraft designs
came from Germany. Yes the US and England had working prototypes and even

More than prototypes. Both the UK and the US had jet fighters in service:
RAF had the Gloster Meteor F1 in 1944 and the Meteor F3 early in 1945,
US had the Lockheed F80 before the end of war in Europe. These are
only the aircraft which actually saw theatre service (and of these the
F3 Meteor and F80 were better all-round than any of the German designs
to see service - mainly because their engines were vastly superior).
Other designs - notably the De Havilland Vampire - were already ramping up
into production, but didn't make it to front-line squadrons before the
end of the war.

Worth remembering that the Meteor flew *before* any of the German jet
fighters did, too.

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Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group
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