• @glimse
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    18 months ago

    I’m dumb…I just googled what a flying fortress was. I thought it was like a steampunk dirigible lol

    • @EdibleFriendOP
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      48 months ago

      hahaha its fine I guess that isn’t a super common knowledge name. But still at the same time if you look it up this isn’t it. the flying fortress gunner seat doesn’t have all that shit on the left and it has windows on both sides.

      • @glimse
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        28 months ago

        I’m dying to know what it is because it looks straight out of a sci-fi movie

        • @CommissarVulpin
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          98 months ago

          It’s the navigator’s station for a Tu-104, an early Soviet jet-powered passenger plane. Fun fact: that little window in the ceiling is so that the navigator can use the stars to figure out where they are if the instruments failed.

          • @glimse
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            48 months ago

            Very interesting, thanks!

          • Neuromancer
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            08 months ago

            If you go to wiki you can see a photo of a 104. You can see the glass and the star port. Very cool

      • @d00ery
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        8 months ago

        It also looks a little spacious for an aircraft of that age.

        Very cool space whatever it may be!