That Germans were the first to connect some dots in some engineering
which deserves some appropriate historical footnote, but there simply
isn't anything special about the Germans for having done so. It is like
suggesting that Glenn Curtis was "better" than the Wrights for hinged
ailerons instead of wing warping, and that anyone who used ailerons
afterwards was some kind of thief/mental midget for adopting the idea.
Basic physics would have lead anyone to the same conclusion/solutions
for all kinds of stuff, WHEN is simply a matter of circumstance.




Yeah its rather silly and intellectually lazy, to assume we, or anyone else,
would have never thought of a high altitude recon aircraft, and its only
because the germans were working on a project like that, that we have the U-2.

But then considering how we have to hear here about how the Germans flew first,
how they went supersonic first, how it must have been some fluke that Germany
was defeated, how they have had super secret UFOs, etc etc..

There is being proud of your heritage and ancestry, and then there is just
being plain delusional too.





Ron
Tanker 65, C-54E (DC-4)