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Originally Posted by MaDalton
indeed - both nations each took 50% of OUR rocket scientists...
plus we had the first working jet fighter and the first stealth bomber..
if only we had used all that for more peaceful purposes...  |
oh, are you British? I thought you was American. the first operational jet fighter was the UK's Gloster Meteor.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
The British experimental Gloster E.28/39 first took to the air on May 15, 1941, powered by Sir Frank Whittle's turbojet.[5] After the United States was shown the British work, it produced the Bell XP-59A with a version of the Whittle engine built by General Electric, which flew on October 1, 1942. The Meteor was the first production jet as it entered production a few months before the Me 262.
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