imagine its 1946 and for whatever macguffin’ the war is still on/the mustache man hasn’t ventilated his own skull yet, and you’re a B-17 ball gunner over Germany and last thing you see some gunless pacifist, aka ‘The Desperation Dorito’, flying right through your ass.

  • datendefekt@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The designer of this monstrosity, Alexander Lippisch, is really fascinating. He pioneered the use of canards, rocket propulsion and delta fuselages and was researching supersonic flight during WWII. When it was clear that the war was lost, he kept his students working on crazy ideas to keep them from getting drafted.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      he kept his students working on crazy ideas to keep them from getting drafted.

      There’s an alt-history pitch for The Producers in there, somehow even more Nazi-filled than the Mel Brooks version.