What happenend to your reply, Tagert?
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If the Germans fully understood swept wing theory..
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Nobody fully understood swept wing theory until after the war. As the history notes, even Jones work in the United States was viewed with skeptism and far from mainstream.
Nobody fully understood the transonic and supersonic realms either.
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German swept-wing wind-tunnel data dispelled U.S. doubts
regarding the validity of R. T. Jones’ theoretical work.
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What the Germans were, is far ahead of anyone else during the war. Their research became the foundation others like Northrop built upon.