Message from @Alexmikli
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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
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
To make rockets work you need good fuel and knowledge of ballistics