• @[email protected]
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    212 months ago

    I like this part even better:

    He added, “Only when McDonnell Douglas later went to analyze it, they said, OK, the F-15 has a very wide [lifting] body; you fly fast enough and you’re like a rocket. You don’t need wings.”

    • @AA5B
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      62 months ago

      But the pilots quote was best of all

      “it’s highly likely that if I had seen it clearly I would have ejected, because it was obvious you couldn’t really fly an airplane like that.”

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        32 months ago

        because it was obvious you couldn’t really fly an airplane like that.

        Looney Tunes “Don’t look down” level achievement