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Keith Willshaw wrote:
Flying wings or discs were nothing new... why do americans think they

Probably because Jack Northrop flew his first flying wing aircraft
in 1940

And the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl was flying in the late 1920s, IIRC.
A later version lost out to the Hawker Demon as the RAF two-seat
fighter of the mid-30s, so on this you're right: Flying wings were
*nothing* new, and neither were tailless aeroplanes.

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