GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Tempest, you're beating a dead horse here...
Half of the stuff you're using as props for your "argument" are flawed as hell, like the British Nene engine...it was a problematic design, and they shelved it after a short life in favor of the Avon.
Comparing the deliberate swept angle of the Me262's wing to the Douglas' wing is like comparing the Space Shuttle to the Zepplin...it does nothing to support your argument but rather illustrates how little you seem to know about these things.
Also comparing the F-80 to the Me262 would have to place the timeline in an accurate perspective, when both the F-80 and Me262 were in service and the F-80's performance was deplorable (and often fatal to it's pilots) at that time, and wasn't improved until later, when the Me262 (and Germans) were no longer at war.
The conspiracy theorists are always saying garbage like Ford and Wall Street supporting the Nazis...And it was true BEFORE the war, where American interests were active in Germany as well as the rest of Europe. This is why the Germans had Ford manufactured vehicles and American backed banks an so on...
From a technological point of view, I don't think any single nation had a monopoly. There were great aircraft designs being offered by the British, Germans, Americans, French, Dutch, Japanese and Italians who All had learned thier lessons from the same sources, as World War I was the great educator for the new technology called flight. As World War II broke, the science of powered flight was still being learned and the designs from all the nations was still developing. The winner of the air war in WWII was not so much who designed the best wing or engine, but who could make the MOST of them.
This is the most important technology, mass production and supply. So even though the King Tiger was for all intents and purposes, the most powerful tank in the known solar system during it's career...it was the mass-produced M4 Sherman tanks that won the war. And mass produced bombers, trucks, ships, c-rations, rifles, fighters, cigarettes, and anything else under the sun.
The Ability of the United States to mass produce a machine, and transport it to one of it's two fronts anywhere in the world in such a short time is why the war was won, and subsequently, the world, changed.
You cannot overlook that as the ultimate state-of-the-art technology that will never win a Nobel prize or be the focus of many arguments, but is absolutely guarenteed to win a war.
Half of the stuff you're using as props for your "argument" are flawed as hell, like the British Nene engine...it was a problematic design, and they shelved it after a short life in favor of the Avon.
Comparing the deliberate swept angle of the Me262's wing to the Douglas' wing is like comparing the Space Shuttle to the Zepplin...it does nothing to support your argument but rather illustrates how little you seem to know about these things.
Also comparing the F-80 to the Me262 would have to place the timeline in an accurate perspective, when both the F-80 and Me262 were in service and the F-80's performance was deplorable (and often fatal to it's pilots) at that time, and wasn't improved until later, when the Me262 (and Germans) were no longer at war.
The conspiracy theorists are always saying garbage like Ford and Wall Street supporting the Nazis...And it was true BEFORE the war, where American interests were active in Germany as well as the rest of Europe. This is why the Germans had Ford manufactured vehicles and American backed banks an so on...
From a technological point of view, I don't think any single nation had a monopoly. There were great aircraft designs being offered by the British, Germans, Americans, French, Dutch, Japanese and Italians who All had learned thier lessons from the same sources, as World War I was the great educator for the new technology called flight. As World War II broke, the science of powered flight was still being learned and the designs from all the nations was still developing. The winner of the air war in WWII was not so much who designed the best wing or engine, but who could make the MOST of them.
This is the most important technology, mass production and supply. So even though the King Tiger was for all intents and purposes, the most powerful tank in the known solar system during it's career...it was the mass-produced M4 Sherman tanks that won the war. And mass produced bombers, trucks, ships, c-rations, rifles, fighters, cigarettes, and anything else under the sun.
The Ability of the United States to mass produce a machine, and transport it to one of it's two fronts anywhere in the world in such a short time is why the war was won, and subsequently, the world, changed.
You cannot overlook that as the ultimate state-of-the-art technology that will never win a Nobel prize or be the focus of many arguments, but is absolutely guarenteed to win a war.