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Old 06-16-2012, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter View Post
The results of the tests in the Gottingen high speed wind tunnel were treated with great caution by the company's project office.
And rightly so!

Swept wing theory was in it's infancy, and as with any new technology that translates into proceeding with caution.

I mean that is something we all seem to agree one, even Crummp said the following on the topic

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Nobody fully understood swept wing theory until after the war.
So it is clear to everyone that this was new territory that could have gone either way.
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Theres a reason for instrumenting a plane for test..
That being a pilots's 'perception' of what is going on can be very different from what is 'actually' going on.