"Eunometic" wrote in message
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(ANDREW ROBERT BREEN) wrote in message
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Bill and Susan Maddux wrote:
It is called the spoils of war. Our race to Space with the USSR was
also
from rocket scientist from Germany. Many of our early jet aircraft
designs
came from Germany. Yes the US and England had working prototypes and
even

big snip

Worth remembering that the Meteor flew *before* any of the German jet
fighters did, too.

I doubt this as Me 262s were in the air in 1942, however the Meteors

It seems you are wise to be sceptical

http://www.vectorsite.net/avmeteor.html

The first Meteor to actually fly took to the air on 5 March 1943, with
Michael Daunt
at the controls. It was the fifth in the prototype manufacturing sequence
and was fitted
with de Havilland Halford H.1 turbojets, the ancestor of the Goblin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262

It was the third airframe that was to become a true jet plane when it took
to the air on July 18, 1942 in Leipheim

John