• FartsWithAnAccent
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      The fact that they were both colourless liquids meant that handling accidents were common, as in the case of one unfortunate ground crewman who inadvertently poured a container of T-Stoff into another containing a small quantity of C-Stoff. As author William Green recounts: “Before he realized the magnitude of his mistake his remains had been spread thinly over the entire test shed.”

      Delightful.

    • @iAvicenna
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      178 months ago

      engineers: lets fill it with human dissolving liquid, what could go wrong?

      pilots: 🫠

    • @wwaxen
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      98 months ago

      I’ve heard of the soup Nazi but this is ridiculous!

    • IndiBrony
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      88 months ago

      I’m reading this article in Simon Whistler’s voice. It’s impossible not to.

    • brvslvrnst
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      58 months ago

      Whoa, this is neat. And the site reminds be of stmbleupon

  • littleblue✨
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    Tiiiiny nitpick: overland camo is, well, land colored. Marine camo is ocean colored. Basically, whatever color would be below the hardware when an enemy viewed it is the theme you want. For instance, ocean camo overland? Ain’t camouflage, now is it?

    • nukeM
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      Too credible.

      None of this matters, everything was in black and white back then anyway until color was invented.

        • @[email protected]
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          108 months ago

          Yes, in “western” society Albert Hoffmann was the first person to see color. Among eg. Amazon tribes and First Nations folks in the US seeing color was more common, thanks to religious uses of hallucinogens.

          • @HoustonHenry
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            Anyone remember that Canadian kids show that changed from b&w to color during the broadcast?

            Edit- spelling

    • @Agent641
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      What if youre inverted?

  • @saltesc
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    198 months ago

    iirc this thing was insanely good to fly but insanely dangerous to fly.

    • @[email protected]
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      98 months ago

      I’d heard the exact opposite about it being good to fly, specifically that it was incredibly hard to turn

      • @[email protected]
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        It was a glider with a rocket, essentially. Apparently a lot of the test pilots liked it before they, well, died a death horrible enough that I don’t even feel that great wishing it on a nazi.

        Edit: also it may have been the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, one of the test pilots maxed out the speedo and reported a noise that he thought was the rocket exploding.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        If you know where you’re going, you don’t have to turn!

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    138 months ago

    Oh yeah, this is a rocket plane. You only get a few minutes of bat-out-of-hell fwooshing before the fuel runs out and you engage in a controlled descent looking for some place to crash not crash ditch safely, and then walk away (hopefully not in enemy-controlled territory). The prop assisted in providing a bit more range on descent.

    It it weren’t in the middle of a war, this might be a ballsy sport.

  • @[email protected]
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    118 months ago

    On actually seeing the aircraft fly, Udet reportedly flew into a rage, declaring: “That is no airplane, leave it alone! I forbid you to fly it again.”

    Most credible Generaloberst Ernst Udet, tut tut no vision

  • @force
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    98 months ago

    isn’t that the jet that used human dissolving fuel

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    78 months ago

    If the Luftwaffe flight sims informed, its not the tendency of the plane to explode due to mismanaged engines that’ll kill you, but the super-finicky landing skids on terrain, rather than wheels on a landing strip.

    But then, going up against a sea of B-17s in a Bf-109 was pretty suicidal anyway, so Luftwaffe pilots were willing to try anything, including rocket planes.

    • @undergroundoverground
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      Tbf, it was pretty suicidal for the day bombing B-17s too. They were some brave MFs.

  • @[email protected]
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    They were getting desperate late in the war.

    A “probably-one-way 🤷🏼‍♂️” plane would at least seem better than a Zero kamikaze.