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That sort of re-wirte is much Much MUCH harder to do..
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It still done and they are still trying. Modern communication technologies make the situation even worse - it's more and more difficult to filter the information and misinformation.
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Is there anything I said that you feel was re-writen by someone?
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How would I know?
This images shows a swept outer wing even without jet engines:
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/att...-me-262-v1.jpg
And even if it was purely to correct the CG - this claim is as unconfirmed as the opposite claim to me - then why did they later on introduce the sweep to the inner section as well (which was obviosuly not needed for CG)? And why were other projects of the swept wing variant too? There sure has been done research regarding the swept wing in the 30ies as well.
At the end the real truth lies probably somewhere inbetween.
And the bottom line stays the same - first fighter plane with swept wing.
The V2 rocket was sure incoporating existing designs, in fact most innovative designs did. After all it is a learning and improving process.
But bottom line is that it was the first ballistic missile.
And what is someone trying to say when putting up that it was Goddards parts/inventions?
'Hey he used Goddards design ideas, so it wasn't really that much of an achievement'?
Well that's already bending history in my opinion. There's much more subtle ways to do it than just blatant lies.
Funny enough the article in wiki states:
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The official U.S. history comments that three features developed by Goddard appeared in the V-2: (1) pumps were used to inject fuel into the combustion chamber; (2) Gyroscopically controlled vanes in the nozzle stablized the rocket until external vanes in the air could do so; and (3) Excess alcohol was fed in, so that a blanket of gas protected the motor from the combustion heat. [89
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From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
"the official US history'...that has me alarm bells going off.
I do not blindly believe in that "official US history". There is no reason why this US history would be the true and only version.
When it was decided that the B2 design would be a flying wing they sure looked at exisiting data of flying wings. They would have been stupid not to. However they would have look at their own designs, there's sure more data available from those.