"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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The 707 was not designed to be a bomber, but a hell of a lot of bomber
know-how and technology, paid for by uncle Sam, went into it. Some
countries took civilian projects into public ownership, the USA did it
but
in a rather different way.


I note DeHavilland built rather a lot of bombers too, doubtless
a good deal of that knowledge went into their civil aircraft designs


Thats just silly

It is silly to transfer military technology to civilian use?