During WW2 Germany had the biggest steam presses in the world - allowing them to build airplanes from bigger components pressed into shape, while all the other

During WW2 Germany had the biggest steam presses in the world - allowing them to build airplanes from bigger components pressed into shape, while all the other countries had to use a lot more smaller components bolted together. Made Nazi planes lighter and stronger than what every one else had. All these presses where in East Germanay (mostly Berlin and Brandenburg) and after the end of WW2 felt in Soviet hands, together with plans for even bigger presses - which the Soviets did build. The British Empire was so short on cash at the time that they sold their jet engine designs to Stalin. Good frames and good jet engines made Soviet jets at least equal to the American in the 1950s.