And think how vulnerable you’d be with trying to line up on targets.
Yeah and at very low altitude too! I bet running in straight and level at 50m above the ground made the chance of catching that golden BB rather uncomfortably large!
Terminal pop up profiles are primarily intended to complicate the ship’s defence solution. If you combine straight in sea slimming and pop ups, the target ship’s CIWS will be more easily overwhelmed.
Most of the aircraft of that era were in service for a very short time. They were designed, prototyped and built in less time than it takes today’s airforce to write a RFP for toilet paper. Aeronautics went from straight-wing-podded-engines 450mph to delta winged mach 2 in a decade! Of course many if not most of the machines built in that era were rather unsafe.
Nuclear dawn. What a gorgeous pic of a gorgeous aircraft. I have always loved the frontal view of the bone. Had a poster of one on the wall at my bedroom when i was a kid. Mom thought it looked threatening and wanted me to take it down. I loved it. I dreamed of flying with (not in) it. I’d give my left nut to see one perform irl, but besides RIAT they dont do europe much, do they?
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