Stephen Harding wrote in message ...
robert arndt wrote:

Yeah, kinda like some of the RAM kooks that don't believe the German
windtunnel data, thousands of tons of captured German documents and FE
(foreign equipment) flown at Wright Field/Patterson had ANYTHING to do
with the US postwar success in the space race and military aviation.

Given that the Russkies had the lead in the space race right up into
the late 60's, such equipment didn't seem to benefit the US much; at
least not in space.


SMH

I would hardly call saving the West a decade in aerospace research
non-beneficial. The windtunnel data alone is invaluable. The West got
much more documents and scientists than Russia did and it took years
to evaluate what was worth pursuing and what wasn't. The Russian
approach was different. The forced their captured scientists and
families to relocate to the USSR, virtually prisoners, and forced them
to work on the most cost-effective systems along with their Russian
counterparts. They had but one goal- beat the West.
In the end, however, the US beat them in the air and space with a lot
more experimentation with German designs than Russia could ever
afford. Only now in the 21st century are we getting away from
evolutionary designs that lead all the way back the Third Reich.

Rob