Shitty Dual's Coffee Table Photo Album

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"Indeed, my feces is quite odourless."

 

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HURR DURR

 

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You do not talk about Fight Club.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Was a single-shot "disposable" gun, instructions in French to walk up behind a German (with a better gun) and shoot from the back at short range. Air dropped over France.

Gotta wonder how many Nazis were successfully assassinated by these, compared to how many French Resistance were killed/maimed by the gun exploding. Those things look like a backfire waiting to happen.

 

[Conchaga]

Good show!

 

[Consumer]

The fantasy:

The Reality.

Horton GO229, one of the prototypes (pictured here) is still at the Smithsonian's storage facility awaiting restoration.

 

[Consumer]

^ It did fly, in the closing months of WWII. Flew quite well, in fact, from the reports. A mock dog-fight with a Me-262 showed the Go229 to be a faster and more maneuverable aircraft. Would have been interesting to have flown it against a P-80 (later F-80) or a Gloster Meteor after the war...

Lockheed built a non-flying mockup with the same materials as the originals and did a radar test to see how stealthy it was. The main reflective source was the turbine blades of the engines, even with that source the return was something like 20% of the radar return of a contemporary BF-109.

That might have been what the Discovery channel was keying off of. Lockheed did use data from this plane in the design of the YB-49, and the resemblance to the B-2 is kinda eerie (as illustrated)...

 

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[Dirk Funk]

 

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This should put some hunt back in this dog (really NSFW):

Spoiler

 

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Guess who?