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Originally posted by templar8
waynos
I merely meant that the shape of "saucers" is the result of the round layout of the field propulsion systems.
Originally posted by waynos
Not necessarily by those dates, as the war unquestionably drove developments forward by several years, but they are still interesting what ifs.
Originally posted by waynos
might all of this given us a genuine 'Space Race' during the 1950's in which the USA and Russia also had the UK and Germany to contend with? A fascinating concept.
Originally posted by Cthulwho
The A9/A10 was designed to be the first intercontinental balistic missile, the A12 was designed to transport cargo into space. If Hitler hadn't started WW2, Germany probably would have put the first man into space in 1949, and landed on the moon in 1959.
Originally posted by Nightwalker
Jack Northrap (might be mispelled) was the reason Nazi Germany had such amazing planes. If memorey serves me correct. He developed the planes that resemble the B-2. After WW2 He came to america and developed the B-2 and many other aircraft with the Air Force.
We are very very lucky we're not all Nazi's. If Hitler wouldn't have messed up so many times we would all be forced to hail to the swastika. Either that or evolution would have started over due to nuclear holocaust. With Hitler as the new Adam.
Nightwalker
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Being so desperate as to open up to 'clean sheet' designs & subsequently conjuring up some interesting shapes (and, as we saw with the Me 262, accidentally stumbling upon certain advanced matters, like wing-sweep) is no substitute for properly run aircraft programs - or, for those who fantasise along the lines of 'if the war had lasted 1 or 2 years longer, for that matter an industrial base & a manufacturing capacity long since crippled & almost totally destroyed.