The sky were mostly aluminium overcast, I guess. It gave them some urgency and motivation. Look at the HE 162 for example. It took them some eight months to develop, test fly and deliver about 100 airplanes before they were ran over by the allied army. I'm impressed. And the fact that many of the important Technical aviation innovations during the last 50 years were developed or innovated in Germany during WW2. Swept wings, Flying wing, delta wings, axial jet engines, radar absorbant structures, airborne radar, missiles, drones etc.
Yeah, those were simpler engineering days when the sky was the limit and wasn't hampered by conventional wisdom or practical physics. :)
ReplyDeleteThe sky were mostly aluminium overcast, I guess. It gave them some urgency and motivation. Look at the HE 162 for example. It took them some eight months to develop, test fly and deliver about 100 airplanes before they were ran over by the allied army. I'm impressed. And the fact that many of the important Technical aviation innovations during the last 50 years were developed or innovated in Germany during WW2. Swept wings, Flying wing, delta wings, axial jet engines, radar absorbant structures, airborne radar, missiles, drones etc.
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