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I forgot I was really obsessed with these planes as a kid. Where did that interest go?
Into your next hyper-fixation, of course.
Uuuuh! What is it? I need a new one!
Roadside Research is pretty fun and only $13 due to early access. You play as an alien that is running a gas station.
Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren't invented before 1977?
Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.
I just DuckDuckGo'ed it. Turns out the laser was actually invented in 1960 it was just considered a useless invention until Star Wars proved it could be uses for weapons.
My birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.
Tracers that point both ways.
It’s the heat…
That was a fascinating article. I had never heard of these planes and their role in WWII before.
For when the hangar door is stuck and you really want to just get the plane in and go to the pub.