PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 9 months agoXF-104 jet in flight, 1957media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down12
arrow-up185arrow-down1imageXF-104 jet in flight, 1957media.kbin.socialPugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-29 months agoThose things killed almost as many Germans as the 8th Air Force. Real pretty, too.
minus-squareSchmuppes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoThe Bundeswehr had 916 units, of which one third crashed and killed 116 pilots (without active combat of course). Holy fucking shit.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoKind of casts a pall over seaons 6, episode 12 of MST3K - The Starfighters
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoThis looks like the kind of jet you’d get if you told the designer to make you the most jet looking jet they can think of.
minus-squareSchmeckinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoIt think it still holds the sea level speed record.
Those things killed almost as many Germans as the 8th Air Force. Real pretty, too.
The Bundeswehr had 916 units, of which one third crashed and killed 116 pilots (without active combat of course). Holy fucking shit.
Kind of casts a pall over seaons 6, episode 12 of MST3K - The Starfighters
This looks like the kind of jet you’d get if you told the designer to make you the most jet looking jet they can think of.
It think it still holds the sea level speed record.