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Hitler dismissed jet engines at the beginning of the war
Ever hear Jerry Clower’s VW Bug story?..................
Oops, it was Wendy Bagwell, not Jerry Clower. They both sound alike!............
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0s9144hn5I
As for steep hills; well, it taught patience.
Check out that kraut standing there dutifully standing guard for the uh... youknowwhatkindawagen.
Not so much dismissed as knowing they weren't ready. The ME-262 airframe was ready in 1938. It wasn't until 1944 that it had a working engine.
I played a gig one time where Jerry Clower was the entertainment. Some kind of fund raiser. Hanging out backstage, that was no act. That’s how he really was.
And those engines (when they had gas at all) ran only 20 hours between overhauls.
The British style of radial compressors was many times their reliability. (It took about a decade after the war to get Axial compressors running as effectively.
Beetles with automatic transmissions were rare.....another drawback imo.
From 1972 they were mostly what was manufactured.
I was raised not very far from where Jerry was from, Yazoo City, Mississippi...........
The German engine was definitely not one to be coveted. But, that ME-262 was a beautiful thing.
NAZIs stood guard over everything.
“Hans! You vill stand guard!!” :)
“On aircraft and rockets, absolutely. Not on nuclear, though.”
Hitler initially dismissed atomic theory as “Jewish science”.
“It is amazing, though, how a country went from being such a clear leader in technological innovation to being something of an also-ran. Losing >5 million of their best men in the war didn’t help.”
And all their Jewish scientists were killed or fled. Most of the lead scientists in the Manhattan Project were Jews (Szilard, Bethe, Teller, von Neumann, Wigner, etc) or half Jews - Bohr) who fled Europe. It’s more if you count US Jews (Oppenheimer) or those who fled because of family connection (Fermi - Italian, but wife and kids were Jewish).
Talk about a brain drain.
There was a really cool science fiction story about the rise of a non-anti-Semitic Hitler. Long story short, they kicked our arse.
If the Germans had developed that jet fighter a year or two earlier and put it into action, the outcome of the war may have been very different.
After the war ended, Jack Northrup himself flew to Germany to see this advanced (at the time) jet fighter for himself.
“If the Germans had developed that jet fighter a year or two earlier and put it into action, the outcome of the war may have been very different.”
Yes, we would have nuked Germany first, instead of just nuking Japan.
That was the intended purpose of The Bomb. The war just ended quicker than anticipated.
IIRC, Nazi Germany coerced citizens to buy into a sort of layaway/bond that would save up enough money to buy a Volkswagen. They got ripped off because the relative few that rolled off the assembly line went to party apparatchiks and the like.
The aviator heads out there like to see “profiles”. :)
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