Like the first(and only) rocket plane the germans fielded

At least soviets

plywood for planes works if you're cheap and don't give a shit about the people flying them

Brits did it too when they needed air superiority in London

No we are talking jets after ww2

ahh

yeah that's kind of dumb

Plywood is a good meterial

It worked

Funfact:The Soviet copy of the B-52 bomber has two erroneous holes on the right wing.

They were just as good

They thought the bulletholes on the crashed plane's wing were intentional

@Alexmikli Early trains, cars, airplanes and tanks were pretty far from shitty

So doesn't really aply for everything

Another funny thing Russians copied American CPUs. We know this because a developer left their intials as Easter eggs in silicone die and the Russians left it in their CPUs

Russians are trash

Basically

Why bother reverse engineering when you can just copy it whole?

Russia doesn't invent anything

Really

Communists fucked them hard

You're not wrong, yeah

well actually didn't the first couple of trains have boiler explosions on the regular?

And there were a lot of pre-Wright brother's planes that crashed constantly

I guess it really depends on what you consider the first plane and first car, too

"Pre Wright" airplanes are more like prototypes

In the dirst world war airplanes were already in vast use

Well a lot of those early cannons and rockets were essentially prototypes too

But yeah, you're right, they weren't really "known' to the public til they were at least capable of doing as advertised.

It took hundreds of years for the concept to be usefull

Like there were a lot of automatic handguns before the c93 Borschart but they fucking sucked.

The thing about arenautics there wasn't math or any calculations you could do

You just put a engine

On a something that looked like it could fly

See what happened

"Rajneesh, how does this work?"

"Fuck man, Vishnu maybe?"

Wright brothers had the advantage of being bike makers

Making compact light weight designs

They also need combustion engine technology to become efficient enough

To make a plane you need a good car engine to be invented too