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Dont mean to be offensive to my american cousins here BUT Looking at all the pictures in the first post all i could think of is that ALL these planes look familiar. for example the XP-55 Ascender looks exaclty like the j7w1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABsh%C5%AB_J7W The XP-56 "black bullet" is comparible to the komet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163 . The same for the YB_35 which looks the same as the Horton Ho 229 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YB-35. Can you c the patteren here? Im no expert on experimental aircraft but i tend to lean on the germans for inventing advanced technology purely because history regarding americans and their distortion of the truth (i aint arf goin to stir up the bees nest here!) is quite well known . Ask an american about the Parkard Merlin.. :wink: Also take for example a recent film " U571" which caused great offense over here in blighty.

my two cents worth on american "wonder" technology.

The biggest problem with your entire post, is that the US stuff was designed AND flew first. So its more likley that the Germans copied the US, then the US copied the Germans. Im not saying thats what happened, just that its not possible to copy the Germans when you do it first.