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Look at all the stuff America crows about.

The steam engine, Invented here. Steel. Invented here. Electronic Computers. Invented here. Radar, especially the magnetron, invented here. The jet engine, invented here and in Germany almost simultaneously. The all moving tailplane for supersonic flight, invented here. Motherhood, invented in Africa Apple Pie, invented here. God, invented in the Middle East, Reinvented in Rome.. Democracy, Invented in Greece (and much good it did them) The Mafia, invented in Sicily (and much good it did them) Americans are pretty carp at inventing anything: Mostly its a ripoff of someone else's idea made successful through selling in vast quantities to a gullible nation.

I think they maty be credited with fast food, and obesity, and the coca cola however. And spurious tailfins on cars. And drag racing. But really that's about it.

Oh, the Blues, I guess the black slaves invented that, and jazz,

Says it all really.

Really the only significant US contributions of any value to modern life have been the semiconductor, the integrated circuit, and the high level programming language, courtesy of COBOL.

Though even there high level languages go back a bit further. To Europe.

What the USA is superb at is business. Taking something from someone else, and pretending they thought of it first, and selling it in vast quantities backed by a flood of syrupy marketing that pretends its is factual.

They are without doubt, the greatest LIARS the world has ever known.

It is, in America.

There is no tax on aviation fuel, its some silly international agreement.

Chuck Yeager, Bell X-1, Muroc Dry Lake, Mojave desert, California, USA, October 14, 1947 The first successfull manned supersonic flight in history.

Not since 1974.

Who really cares? It's all low bidder crap these days.

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To throw a little light on this unnecessary rudeness to our American cousins. The expression Amearkin came up because in the U.S. they could say American so quickly it sounded like Amearkin. So across the pond they became Amearkins...quite harmless.

However some low lifes changed this to Merkins. A few hundred years ago in order to deal with body lice, ladies would shave their lower private parts. Since this was deamed un-attractive, they could buy small triangular wigs which were called...you guessed it Merkins. Please dont let the low-lifes get you down, we have as many here as you have there. And they just love the internet.

How's your space agency doing? How do they like the US built communications systems that i built?

Which was to use ungodly amonts of tax money for the design and to subsidize the enntoire program.

The crappy V2 rockets that they rianed down on gay old England?

At 50 feet, it would have hit a tree, and you don't land at 75,000 feet, which is 14.2 miles AAT. They have to descend to land, and gain altitude to leave any airfield. Airports balked at longer runways for

Are you sure they have never caused any damage? Have you ever been in Florida when one loops over the state before landing? That distinctive double boom has a lot of energy when it's close. I've heard plenty of them over the last 20 years. I also built some of the communications equipment and telemetry equipment used to track them.

prove it. No commercial SS was allowed, and military SS has limited flight paths at lower altitudes which limits the bases they can operate from.

Sigh. Do you ever study anything, or just type bullshit?

So, where are his flying, today?

Even their lightbulbs.

Many years ago in a previous life, radio host Don Imus brought me his Triumph Motorcycle to look at because the headlight as in fact, leaking oil!

Long story short: Bad oil pressure sending unit had it's wire lead encased in a plastic spaghetti tube that ran up along the frame to the headlight housing. Oil was running up through the spaghetti tubing and collecting in the headlight housing. When he parked, it would drip out.

Now if that had been an American Hog, it would have been a cunning feature to prevent the headlight corroding.

You guys cant even get a sub zero O-ring to work.

And no one in their right minds not doing pork barrel politics would glue a rocket together with an O ring anyway.

An engineer, it has been said, is someone who can do for sixpence what any damned fool can do for a quid.

Or any American company for $10,000 of course.

Well the Saturn V wasn't exactly advanced compared to a V2. They were both more or less the same. However the Russians did have significantly more advanced rocket engines. NASA have been using the designs to make their rockets better.

And yet you poor, mindless blokes haven't launched anything to the moon, let alone get it back.

Sigh. the Saturn V was a Model A. The V2 was a model T. Both designed in the days of slide rules, and poor metalurgy. Tube electronics and crude plastics. Do you have anything useful to say?

They built bigger engines, typical of Russian designs. Scale up something, then everthing else needed the same.

Proof?

One look at Imus, and you knew it wasn't hair oil. ;-)

Where do you get this?

The Saturn was unusual, possibly unique, in that it was (apparently) the only rocket that never failed.

Hey - what's the matter with slide rules? I still use mine (fairly) regularly.