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![]() "Canal builder" wrote in message ... | wrote: | | | Totalitarian states do not permit experimental aviation. | | Not true. The German Nazi regime of the 1930s loved experimental aviation | (and experimental rocketry), they even gave financial support. A lot of the | amateur designers and pilots then went on to play a big part in the Second | World War. The contemporary British government tried everything it could to | stop amateurs getting into the air. | | As a result, surviving the Battle of Britain (1940) was as much a matter of | luck as judgment. Later on we had to put up with bombs mysteriously falling | out of the sky (the V2 long range rocket). If the war in Europe had gone on | much longer the first man in space would have been a German piloting a | two-stage missile to New York. | | BTW this difference in attitude between British and German governments | continues to this day. This explains why German radio hams are putting | together a Mars lander, and we can't fly a suitably-equipped Lancair in IFR. | I read where the Germans emphasized sailplanes and their power planes didn't carry much fuel. -- Jarhead ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Jarhead,
I read where the Germans emphasized sailplanes Because powered planes were not allowed by the Versailles Treaty. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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Ah, treaties, they make the world safe from war.
Washington Naval Conference Any thing signed by Russia or Germany or Japan before WWII and many things since. -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "Thomas Borchert" wrote in message ... | Jarhead, | | I read where the Germans emphasized sailplanes | | | Because powered planes were not allowed by the Versailles Treaty. | | -- | Thomas Borchert (EDDH) | |
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