airlinerdude12 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I heard that this aircraft was the most useless plane in the air force ( also saw it in a book named " worst airplanes of all time". it does have no purpose

truthspeaker969 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

they did

julosx (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

France "borrowed" German engineers as well, who reluctantly helped to develop the Mirage III's engine (SNECMA Atar 9). But they didn't invent delta wings.

QuinS33 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Its true german/nazi engineers contributed to American aerospace but not because we "stole" them. That's just laughable. 1. Allies won the war. 2. Germany wasn't even allowed to do anything after Geneva. Did we steal Einstein too? hahaha.

flyboy3633 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

No doubt the Germans had some smart engineers. So did the Americans, but we had a war to win so our focus was on production techniques and new designs of known, producable (sp?) technology. Winning the war was more important than wasting effort on designs that wasted resources and couldn't be maintained in the field. I'd say it worked.And you bet the Germans came to work for us. The only other option was the Russians and they HATED Germans !BTW Von Braun was a genius !

zamka21 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

americans dont wanna hear that,thats why;D

fernfeyes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Operation Paperclip comes to mind where Nazi scientists were given priority to come to the U.S. after the war. The German rocket scientists cut a deal with the U.S. because they didn't want to get captured by the Russians. Many rocket parts were captured/stolen(?) along with much technical information..that's history and fact.

truthspeaker969 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"America 1950´s...all copys and steal plans of germany."not only the plans, the chief engineers wereoften taken away from germany as well...

khanman125 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

werner von braun ring a bell anyone?

ShadyMrPockets (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

don't know why people gave this a thumbs down, he's absolutely right.