PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoPhotos of the Williams X-Jet in flight, US, 1982lemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down11
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minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoWhat uh… happened during the tests…?
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-23 months 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.
minus-squareCTDummy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months ago“How’s your pilot… to shred you say?”
minus-squarehihi24522@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months ago“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”
What uh… happened during the tests…?
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. ✈️🙉
“How’s your pilot… to shred you say?”
“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”