Nevermind airplanes you'd accept as a bribe.
What about ones you'd regard as a threat?
What about ones you'd regard as a threat?
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That thing has two faces, both somehow sad.
But oh, wow, it was cool.
Every Gee Bee racer built crashed.
Designed by a man with no previous experience in aeronautics and a trumpian regard for the truth.
Designed to have unsupported flexible wings
Looks like a kid's toy
Oh can't go on, check it out here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Bullet
It's rare I read about somebody and hate them quite this viscerally.
The cockpit is inside the air intake...
It's ok though, you've got a couple of silly little portholes to look out of!
To say nothing of the (long) list of other reasons why absolutely not.
What about ones you'd regard as a threat?
https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2021/07/early-evolution-in-aerial-warfare.html
"Assembled from captured German film following WWII, this US Army Air Corps-produced film provided an overview of the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-propelled fighter."
🎞️📑 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNu_yXGGwRY
all ended in a detente... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://bsky.app/profile/wpmacmason.bsky.social/post/3lp7pxpufxc2p
8 test flights proved it could take off, the 9th proved that there were unanswered questions about transitioning to level flight.
Questions like "why the fuck didn't we think about how hard that would be *before* going ahead and crashing the thing?"
It's 12.5 seconds before you hit the ground after the engine cuts out! That's plenty of time to regret your career choices.
parts, mainly because Lego seems to only make components that make sense.
The last American plane to kill that many German pilots was the Mustang.
Slight caveat in that WIG designs might be useful for extending range of naval drones?
..I assume the trooper is also dosed with industrial quantities of Military grade LSD ..as he looks looks remarkably calm.
.. 2 1960's experiments for the price of one
*oh no*
OH NO
Not sure I would want to be in the bomber with that blocking 2 of your bomb bays and be bombed up in the 3rd bay.
Better than a Mustang taped on both wingtips of a b17