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Friday, July 10, 2015

Innovation & technology

Who Killed America’s Can-Do Spirit?


Boeing B-47B rocket-assisted take off on April 15, 1954. (U.S. Air Force photo)
George Schairer didn’t make it back home to Seattle in time to celebrate Independence Day, 1945. He had been on a long and slow journey from Germany and he was the bearer of a great and secret discovery.
At 32, Schairer was one of the sharpest minds at the Boeing Airplane Company. As the Allied armies penetrated Nazi Germany he was in a group of aviation scientists sent from the U.S. to scoop up anything of value from the Third Reich’s research centers.

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