Litofsky

we had the monopoly for only three years, from August 1945 until January 1948. The only advantage we had remaining was that the Russians had only one plane capable of carrying those huge bombs, the TU4 knock off of the B 29. But the Russians got hold of it by copying the three B29s they had on hand, and buying the engines and landing gear from the US so they could build a 'civilian airline'