Jolly Platypus@lemm.eeM to Trump Watch@lemm.eeEnglish · 10 days agoTurning Qatari 747 into Air Force One could cost $1 billion and take years, experts saywww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squarePhilipTheBucket@ponder.catlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 days agoSmall nation: Why are you sending us a strategic bomber? Is Trump coming to visit? Please reply quickly US: Wait and see 😇
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-29 days agoLol, just a smol incident. Then again: wiki/Boeing_747
minus-squarePhilipTheBucket@ponder.catlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoThey actually did make something sort of like your Frankenstein creation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch Also, in other news, I had no idea what a behemoth the Spruce Goose had been. Bronze medal: Antonov An-225 Silver medal: HOWARD HUGHES AND A WHOLE CITY’S WORTH OF LUMBER YARDS AND A DREAM, WE USED TO BE ALIVE IN THIS COUNTRY
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoYes, I member the Stratolaunch! And the other wacky one, the flying wing, never got any of the huge concept (especially passenger) realised. YB-35/49 was basically the biggest (50m wingspan). Northrop_YB-49
minus-squarePhilipTheBucket@ponder.catlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoWE USED TO SING SONGS, WE USED TO SEE VISIONS
Small nation: Why are you sending us a strategic bomber? Is Trump coming to visit? Please reply quickly
US: Wait and see 😇
Lol, just a smol incident.
Then again:
wiki/Boeing_747
Also very impractical:
They actually did make something sort of like your Frankenstein creation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch
Also, in other news, I had no idea what a behemoth the Spruce Goose had been.
Yes, I member the Stratolaunch!
And the other wacky one, the flying wing, never got any of the huge concept (especially passenger) realised.
YB-35/49 was basically the biggest (50m wingspan).
Northrop_YB-49
WE USED TO SING SONGS, WE USED TO SEE VISIONS