Why Are All Aircraft Designs so Similar?

Have you ever noticed how similar modern day aircraft are to one another? How about modern day fighter planes, commercial airliners and private aircraft? Have you ever considered why this is; well you are not alone. After much thought on this subject and ever searching for the latest concept, design or radical departure from the norm; I too have pondered this. Let me share with you some thoughts.

After World War II, Nazi Germany fell and that left some of the most advanced aerospace engineers of the day, jobless and very valuable to the allied forces and their future mission to remain strong thru superior technology. World War II taught us that he who controls the sky with air superiority in fact controls the battles field, now the battlespace. Regarding German