Could a POD have made the WW2 silverbird bomber design a reality (assume the heat shield flaw was fixed before actual testing)?
Silverbird would've certainly been a doable project....in the late '60s/early '70s. For WWII, it's pure ASB (especially for Nazi Germany).
I'd imagine the US would be more interested in such a project rather than the Soviets, who had a vested interest in developing rocket and missile projects, vice the early American emphasis on aircraft. However, they'd both have access to the resources and capabilities to make Silverbird work.
'Won over' is a nice euphemism, Stalin ordered that Sanger be kidnapped from Paris.Quite the opposite, Stalin attempted to have Eugen Sanger won over after the war so he could make a Soviet space plane.
'Won over' is a nice euphemism, Stalin ordered that Sanger be kidnapped from Paris.