Does anyone else here believe that Vincent Burnelli had some of the best ideas about flying safety and that we're all worse off for flying in pencils with wings?

I've gathered a lot of info on this subject and am fairly well convinced that many thousands of lives could have been saved if his aircraft had been produced and WWII could possibly have been shortened at the stroke of a pen.
Thanks to the short sightedness of US President Roosevelt, we may never know.

Lots of info on the web via google and more of my thoughts to follow here, if anyone is interested?