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To: Jonty30

Photo looks like some Nazi scientist design was bushed off and used.

Straight out of Captain America cartoon
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3 posted on 05/10/2024 5:04:58 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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13 posted on 05/10/2024 5:27:42 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MeanWestTexan

(Photo looks like some Nazi scientist design was bushed off and used.)

Look at the engineering team in the photo. Nazis would be insulted with that comment. Too much diversity in that picture. Probably why it crashed.


17 posted on 05/10/2024 5:34:33 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: MeanWestTexan

Naah, this is old tech. Nothing to do with WW2 dudes.
I first read about this in the 1969 “frontiers of Space” book by Bono and Gatland. Kinda cool in that the aerospike is designed to be ground to orbit and back again. No stages, no parachutes.
Sorta like Musk’s efforts.
Blows thru fuel like crazy, but you save on all the bits&bobs you don’t throw away or drop on everyone’s heads.


46 posted on 05/10/2024 8:31:43 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: MeanWestTexan
[Photo looks like some Nazi scientist design was bushed off and used.]

Arado E555 Amerika Bomber Porject:


47 posted on 05/10/2024 8:33:03 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: MeanWestTexan
The Horten Ho229 which actually flew:


48 posted on 05/10/2024 8:37:40 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: MeanWestTexan

I was just gonna say it looks like the Ekranoplane ground effect aircraft of the NAZIs.


49 posted on 05/10/2024 8:50:53 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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