America's first jet plane,1942
It never saw combat but was a start into the jet age.
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3. Comment rated too low. Show this comment kashinthebin 273 days ago
#1 read the title "AMERICAS firs jet plane" not Germans.
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5. Comment rated too low. Show this comment Gringo_el_Diablo 273 days ago
#4 then you don't know America...
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Hahahah 6:40 "panel vibrator"...anyway things are more exciting now...they have NRO, DARPA and numerous companies skunkworks.
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10. Threeme2189 273 days ago
Am I the only one that notice the music from Robin Hood (the good one with Kevin Costner) playing as the plane takes off?
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11. loadrunner 273 days ago
I'm leaving on a Jetplane, not knowing where i'm going to...
who made that song?
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Let's get ONE thing straight right here, right now people: it was the UK's Sir Frank Whittle's design of the turbojet engine that made this possible, he took his design to you Americans !!!!
Oh and Werner Von Braun from Nazi Germany gave you the Rocket too!!
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15. master_shake 273 days ago
I like the dummy prop for the cover-up!! Classic conspiracy style government
Try doing that these days, not a chance.14
#7 ... Henri Coanda was the first to construct a jetpowered airplane, not the inventor of the jet-engine (thou without the internal moving parts). During his experiments Coanda noticed a fenomena which become known as the Coanda-effect. Jet-engines in various forms has been around since way back. But the first self-sustaining gas-turbine to run successfully was built in 1903 by Norwegian engineer Aegidius Elling.
Oh? By the way - I'm not Norwegian...so mentioning of Elling has nothing to do with...eeh? Patriotism!?... 
. Whatever achievements in history -
they are done by individuals, not nations. But nations can provide the
fertile ground for sucsess. What if Nikola Tesla had stayed in what is todays Croatia? (He was an ethnic Serb). I suspect the introduction of Alternating Current would be very much delayed, and our industrial history would have been very much delayed...
Sorry for writing so much, but life is such - lots of info
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19. Highmeadow 272 days ago
#11 - Peter, Paul and Mary recorded the most popular version. Song was written by John Denver. And the second phrase is "don't know when I'll be back again." My older sisters were hippies.
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#14 What are you talking about? Einstein was not part of the Manhatten Project.
According to fellow physicist Leo Szilard, Einstein said the possibility of a chain reaction "never occurred to me" when talking about splitting the atom. Einstein was a pacifist who wanted nothing to do with war making and always regretted signing Szilard's letter asking Roosevelt to fund making an atomic bomb.
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21. c0mmanderKeen 271 days ago
#3 I was merely adding some information to those interested enough to click a wikipedia link 
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#12 and #14:
Let's get one OTHER thing straight right here, right now people: it was the AMERICANS to whom you brits and the rest of europe owe your freedom and LIVES to, or else you'd be speakin GERMAN right now!!! GOT IT???
Oh... and Werner Von Braun from Nazi Germany gave us the rocket too... yah... and we gave him AND Einstein a FREE country to LIVE the rest of their LIVES in, too!!
Had to be said, bein that you're hatin on us here in the US for no good reason! Did anybody say we were FIRST to create the jet engine!? Cheese and rice!!!
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23. RomanianGuy 268 days ago
I don't know why everyone is acting wise and allknowledge . The jet plane was invented by a romanian ( Henri Coanda ). Nor Germany or America [...]
Anyway , nothing is fair on this world [...]
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1. c0mmanderKeen 273 days ago
Technology is exciting, no matter what stage of developement
The first jet fighter that was actually deployed was the German Messerschmidt Me 626 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262