history morons

Witness Dan Ackroyd's "documentary" about UFO's and the idiots who believe it.

(kim)

no sweat.

yep.

well, ian hogg said it was a result of urban fighting, notably stalingrad. it would have many uses of course.

Sure, you think they'd admit, "well we juiced it up a little to make a better story" ?

Actually, they often do just the opposite. The history of early jet engines is an example. The conventional wisdom is that US was way behind Europe in mid to late thirties. The myth is that two lone inventors, Hans Von Ohain and Frank Whittle single handedly invented turbojet engine. Actually, US had been working on idea also, for years, and both GE and Lockheed had queried Wright-Pat about sending proposals on jet engines. Army said no at time (for reasons I won't get into for reasons of brevity). Actually, a contract was signed with four US firms to develop GT engines days before GE got contract to develop Whittle copy. These four engines were entirely US designs, and GE had two compartmented programs, one for Whittle copy and one for their own internal design.

TV histories never tell this side of story.

Also, US led in several other aircraft powerplant technologies. They did not go into production in large numbers, but if you think you can avoid war for a few more years, in an era of rapid technological development you can benefit by continuing R&D and NOT committing to production. Soviets benefitted by this strategy frequently during cold war.

Exactly. This is the kind of thing I am talking about. I'm an ex AF officer, and engineer with two aerospace firms who spent my career doing R&D. I can walk around WPAFB blindfolded. The labs with frozen space aliens are a bunch of crap.

tv egis don't usually admit mistakes.

Sure, Don, that's what y'all ALL say........... :)

Oh No ! Killfiled by a TV educated nitwit ! What Will I Do Now ?

Better be careful, Mulder will be knocking on your door some evening!

Bill Shuey :-)

Go back to yer TV , you must have the 'Ejot's Guide to the Internet' to get this far .

Look up who Noddy is and I don't mean Slade!

Look up Noddy and Big Ears