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Amperzand

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Re: The great aircraft discussion thread
« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2016, 06:33:28 pm »
Hence, the SLAM being suuper cool, but also unbelievably pointless.
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Re: The great aircraft discussion thread
« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2016, 07:00:21 pm »
Quote from: Strife26 on February 21, 2016, 06:02:57 pm
XB-70

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That plane is one of the sexiest aircraft to ever grace the skies, the fact that it was made at the wrong time is irrelevant, sexy engineering is sexy engineering. I mean, have you see the ass end of that thing? That's some hard core Sci-Fi shit right there.

Tho I completely agree on the A-10 (and it's original namesake too) and the Blackbird, supremely sexy craft.
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Re: The great aircraft discussion thread
« Reply #32 on: February 21, 2016, 09:01:26 pm »
Quote from: mainiac on February 21, 2016, 06:31:35 pm
Quote from: Strife26 on February 21, 2016, 06:02:57 pm
Interesting rule of thumb, coolness of American aircraft is inversely proportional to how much the USAF as an institution likes them.

Or to put it another way, coolness of American aircraft is directly proportional to how unnecessary they are.

Yep. The Warthog and the Blackbird are both unnecessary platforms.
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