@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 22 days agoPhotos of the Williams X-Jet in flight, US, 1982lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1158
arrow-up1158imagePhotos of the Williams X-Jet in flight, US, 1982lemmy.world@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 22 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•21 days ago“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•edit-221 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.
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. ✈️🙉