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Originally Posted by Al Schlageter

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

Originally Posted by Crumpp

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.