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To: slapshot

Actually, during the second world war, the soviets brought
an famous aviation designer out of the gulag to figure
out why their planes were crashing.
He watched a crew assemble one and found that the cause
was miss alignment of the wing and spar and the crews
were driving the bolts home with a sledge hammer, stressing
the spar and causing it to fail...


10 posted on 06/09/2016 4:11:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Musta been a Jew. Did they send him back to the Gulag?


12 posted on 06/09/2016 4:25:39 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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