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Originally Posted by Dang3r
Nope.
You hadnt stole our scientists, thats nonsense. Few of them move to the US and developed inventions further. Thats leads also afterwards to your enormous advances into aviation.
Btw. your shown DC-3 has its first flight in '33 the JU52 in '32. After war Germany was not allowed to build own aircrafts so we had to deal with the stuff the market offers 
The Wrights had made the first valid engine supported flight, I dont complain about that, but Otto von Lilienthal lost his life by the very first attempt to fly with the glider and this was earlier. His invention leads to the first tries to build a wing and the Wrights had participating from this. |
The ju52 was no competition to the DC-3.
Almost every major airline in the 30's flew DC3's.
The DC-3 has a cruise speed of 150kts vs the Ju52 114 kts
The DC-3 has a gross weight of around 25,000lbs vs Ju52 gross weight of around 20,000lbs, seats 20 to 30 passengers vs 17 passengers.
I'd assume the DC3 did better on fuel too since it has 2 engines vs 3. DC-3's are still flown today in parts of South America, Africa.
My point was even before ww2 the US did pretty good!