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"Gee adhesive metal bonding and testing ,fasteners, Panel assembly techniques, Fly by wire." And HOW was that technology "stolen"? Do you have any proof? And using your juvinile train of "thought", if they stole the technology as you claim, then that means that GM, Dodge, and Ford stole the technology for automobiles, and the internal combustion engine. And Boeing stole the technology for jet aircraft, and winglets since it was the Europeans who developed them too. 1879: Karl Benz, working independently, was granted a patent for his internal combustion engine, a reliable two-stroke gas engine, based on the same technology as Nikolaus Otto's design of the four-stroke engine. Later, Benz designed and built his own four-stroke engine that was used in his automobiles, which were developed in 1885, patented in 1886, and became the first automobiles in production. 1885: German engineer Gottlieb Daimler received a German patent for a supercharger 1893 February 23: Rudolf Diesel received a patent for his compression ignition (diesel) engine. 1897 English engineer Frederick W. Lanchester patented wing end-plates as a method for controlling wingtip vortices. 1903 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky begins a series of theoretical papers discussing the use of rocketry to reach outer space. A major point in his work is liquid fueled rockets. 1903: Ægidius Elling builds a gas turbine using a centrifugal compressor which runs under its own power. By most definitions, this is the first working gas turbine. 1908: René Lorin patents a design for the ramjet engine. 1910: Henri Coandă builds and flies the world's first jet powered aircraft, 1916: Auguste Rateau suggests using exhaust-powered compressors to improve high-altitude performance, the first example of the turbocharger. 1921: Maxime Guillaume patents the axial-flow gas turbine engine. It uses multiple stages in both the compressor and turbine, combined with a single very large combustion chamber. 1926: Alan Arnold Griffith publishes his groundbreaking paper Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, changing the low confidence in jet engines. In it he demonstrates that existing compressors are "flying stalled", and that major improvements can be made by redesigning the blades from a flat profile into an airfoil, going on to mathematically demonstrate that a practical engine is definitely possible and showing how to build a turboprop. Oh, and you forget that the europeans have been developing aircraft for just as long if not longer than Boeing has been around. Let's see, Boeing was incorporated in 1916 Fokker: 1912 Armstrong-Whitworth: 1912 Breguet Aviation: 1911 Bristol Aeroplane Company: 1910 Dornier: 1914 Flugzeubau Friedrichshafen (Arado): 1912 Junkers: 1914 Bayerische Flugzeugwerk (Messersmitt): 1916 Looking at the histories of the above companies, they've all merged and passed on their knowhow over the years to BAE Systems and EADS.