@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 22 days agoPhotos of the Williams X-Jet in flight, US, 1982lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1158
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•22 days agoThe design was shelved shortly after the tests.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•21 days ago“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•edit-222 days agoIIRC they found that it wasn’t viable for the role it was designed for. There wasn’t any catastrophic failures that I remember. The version I remember is that it was meant to be a quiet way to have a moving elevated guard post. It wasn’t quiet.
The design was shelved shortly after the tests.
What uh… happened during the tests…?
“How’s your pilot… to shred you say?”
“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”
IIRC they found that it wasn’t viable for the role it was designed for. There wasn’t any catastrophic failures that I remember.
The version I remember is that it was meant to be a quiet way to have a moving elevated guard post. It wasn’t quiet.
I can only imagine. ✈️🙉