Del C wrote:
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Don't worry Peter! Bill thinks that anything not made in the USA is no
good. He is from the country that came up with the supposedly self
defending B17 Bomber that your lot shot down in droves in WW2, at least
until the long range Mustang fighters with UK designed Merlin engines came
along to defend them. ....
Derek Copeland


This sentiment is unbecoming a UK citizen whose liberty depended on the
War materiel support and post-war aid that the USA provided Europe, and
in particular Britain. If Americans sometimes talk like 19th century
British Imperialists, it is because they too have drunk deep of the same
heady wine - world dominion - but only for a while.....

Even talk of war-planes can easily turn to one's disadvantage:
try comparing the Mustang, from first drawing, to first proto in six
months - compared with say the Spitfire assembly at Castle Bromwich
satellite factory from parts - first product out of the hangar took
TWELVE months....

Brian W