Stephen Souter wrote:
The prize is just a way to convince the investors and to amortize the
development costs. Did people stop flying over the atlantic after lindbergh
won the prize?

Shouldn't you be asking what Lindbergh's trip had to do with people
crossing the Atlantic as paying passengers?

There was an interesting discussion over on sci.space.history on
something close to this topic; The Gee Bee racers. Often credited
with 'proving' the technology for high speed fighters, they had almost
nothing in common with their supposed 'progeny'. High speed fighters
were different in almost every way, and the one Gee Bee style racer
that became a fighter... Was an abysmal failure.

D.
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