I did indeed state that said aircraft should have at least flown once, but too often I feel like a Ringo Starr solo album.
The most ridiculous aircraft design
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I did indeed state that said aircraft should have at least flown once, but too often I feel like a Ringo Starr solo album.
Im sure I have seen that design in Fallout 4?
That cut-rate nose job seemed like such a good idea at the time...
The paint job is a lost opportunity. They need to paint it like a hot dog in a bun.
While the nose might make sense from memory wasn't the idea of the Nimrod AWAC's, "ill-advised"?
True enough, but most of what has ended up here are either testbeds, or look as they do for a good reason.
Still, there's always the K-7
Driftless
Donor
As a category, you can make a case for most of the VTOL's, apart from helicopters. How many bazillion dollars have been spent, with marginal success, to create a practical aircraft that fulfills a useful purpose? The Osprey has finally gotten there, but at extraordinary expense. My impression is that in order to accomplish just the basics of their intended mission, they become technically so complex as to make Rube Goldberg blush.
McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
Isn't this what Steve Austin crashed in to become the $6,000,000 man?
I think so. The article I found it on actually does not say either way.
You couldn't pay me enough to be the driver/pilot of it. And again apart from the engineering craziness, who in the military thought these were good ideas?