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your average history channel watcher what was it about the Me262 design that made it 'so revolutionary'
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I doubt your average history channel fellow will even know the advantage of a swept wing design over a straight wing design.
He will only claim that it was the worlds first jet fighter.
Still you are very biased as I see it, forget about German grand parents, has nothing to do with it, neither have skinheads, it's simply that you continue pondering on one design aspect of a plane taken in its initial stages and ignoring all other steps in the design of the plane taken later on plus its development and testing and results going into the design before finally going into production.
And that is biased.
As is bringing in Goddard and Hayes, turning them into the real heroes, while everything else is nil.
You keep absolutely ignoring facts, to remind you:
- high speed wind tunnel tests from 39 AVA Goettingen
- 262 with steep swept wing at 40 degrees tested in wind tunnel 41
- high speed trial of 262 with 18.5 wing sweep showing advantage over straight wing
- Me 262 swept inner wing added in 42-43, not for CoG
Silence to all this that doesn't fit your view.
The 262 was a straight wing - correct for CoG swept wing - production design. 3 steps that's it.
You keep contradicting yourself as well:
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Which gave them a good 5+ year RnD head start over the rest of the world.
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While above you mention they:
- didn't understand it as well as thought
- they didn't see it as being a great benefit
- as they studied highly swept wings they would have have no clue about lesser swept wings
Which are nothing but assumptions from your side btw.
But at the end they had 5yrs RnD head stat, but somehow they didn't know what they were doing? Now how does that fit?
Not at all.
It makes about as much sense as the V2/rocket tech not being bothersome to the Allieds but still worth sending 600 bombers and capturing the design team.
But I don't see we're getting anywhere, you just keep repeating that one thing, loud and often as they say on that site quoted by you.
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