[ARC5] Japanese Radios and Our Torps

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:20 PM
Subject: [ARC5] Japanese Radios and Our Torps


>>
> By the way, sometimes go compare the reports issued by 
> NACA well before WWII to those that came out during WWII. 
> It is clear that NACA went from being a true world leader 
> in aeronautics to lagging far behind the industry. 
> Another reason not to have a Govt radio design lab.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
>
    But, was not NACA a government agency before WW-2?  You 
are making the assumption that anything in the private 
sector will work better than the same thing in government 
but I think the pursuit of profit is often the determining 
factor in the direction and extent of research.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com