ORIGINAL: Quikturn
ORIGINAL: Vincent
For the record the first airframe to fly with a turbo jet engine was the German Heinkel HE 178. It flew on Aug 8 1939.
Vin...
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I was helping my daughter on a timeline in aviation project for school and discovered the HE 178 was the first jet aircraft to fly and the ME 262 is the first jet fighter to fly.
Her school notes made no mention of any German accomplishments and gave Great Britain credit for development of the turbine engine when in fact it was independently co-developed by Great Britain and Germany around the same time. I found this disappointing and so we made sure to set the record straight.
As a side note, much of the Saturn V rocket came from German know how but you don't find much credit for that either.
This isn`t the only example of tweaking the history; One has to remember there`s always the winning part in any war who writes the history-books. Sadly but true. One example, It turns out my grand-children has no idea who Winston Churchill was. Most of the material regarding WW 2 is taken out of the school-books. This in spite of the fact that my country were occupied by Nazi-Germany for five years! I still think German scientists and engineers should have due credit for their accomplishments.