On 28/04/2015 13:11, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> It is odd that flying started in the US but for the
> first two decades the Europeans made all the advances
> in it. The US did not field a single combat plane in
> WWI and had to rely on French loaners. Most of the
> replicas at Rhinebeck are copies of European machines.
Mitch, yes quite odd; it was the French who gave us the words aileron
and fuselage, in their aeronautical contexts. Then came the first
aeroplane war, which was this side of the pond, and as ever, war is a
catalyst to technological development.
It most definitely swung back the other way in the 1930s though,
particularly in civil aviation.
Regards
Paul
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