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 Stormin' Norman wrote:
 
 > Fascinating aircraft.  I always wondered why they didn't incorporate
 > more of the German science into the X-1, like the swept wing of the
 > Me-163 Comet.
 
 Because they were in a hurry to be first to Mach 1.
 
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