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Originally Posted by nearmiss
Nope not the case... during the war the government influenced everything with money, money, money. Winning the war was priority one. The DOD threw money at anything to aid in the war effort.
The world was at war, Britain, Australia, Russia, etc they all needed equipment as well.
The government even paid for Howard Hughes Spruce Goose, start to finish.
I double doubt those American aircraft companies could do anything with an American based game developer. The lawyers would love those lawsuits.
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Not the case...It worked like this: the goverment announces what it is looking for, different company's then develope an aircraft to meet what they hope will win the contract. The aircraft would then be tested, and then the goverment would choose the winner, and thus the valuable contract...So in the case here about Grumman, they are in the right since it is their aircraft design, and property. Now Boeing with its B-17 is not so picky as Grumman is, so it depends on each company as to how they share their property. The goverment did not own the patent, they only bought a bunch of the aircraft.
"The prototype B-17, designated
Model 299, was designed by a team of engineers led by E. Gifford Emery and
Edward Curtis Wells and built at
Boeing's own expense."
There may have been cases of goverment money used for developement, but I'm not aware of them