The XC-123 was a jet transport daughter of the XG-20 Glider and a sister to the C-123 ProviderKJ_is_a

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The XC-123 was a jet transport daughter of the XG-20 Glider and a sister to the C-123 Provider

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This Boeing 720 is controlled remotely as part of NASA's Controlled Impact Demonstration

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Vickers VC-10 carrying a fifth engine in a designated pod under the wing

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The Boeing XF8B was Boeing's attempt at a versatile WW2 fighter for the Navy

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Sukhoi Su-9 of 1946, one of the earliest soviet fighter jets, likely inspired by the capturer Me-262s

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They tried rockets on the Comet too! The G-5-1 prototype took to the sky using De Havilland Sprite booster. Note the prototype's landing gear as well.

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Convair CV-340 operating for Caribair taking off using JATO rockets at St. Thomas airport. (I guess i'm the JATO airliners guy now)

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Douglas DC-4 taking off using JATO rockets. The plane is a freighter used by American Airlines.

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Douglas DC-9 modified with JATO bottles used by Overseas National Airways.

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Lockheed L-300 was the sole civilian Starlifter which became a flying observatory for NASA

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Avia CS-92, a Czechoslovak twin-seater jet trainer (and her single seat fighter sister - the S-92) was a post-war Czech version of the ME-262

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Lockheed L-1249 Super Constellation was a turboprop Connie (R7V-s in the Navy, YC-121F in the Air Force

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TU-116, the other, less subtle passenger conversion of the TU-95 bomber with the passenger compartment replacing the bomb bay.

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The ROMBAC 1-11, the 1-11 built behind the Iron Curtain in Communist Romania

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Lockheed has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever (again)

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Bad TW Idea: Total War: Prigozhin

A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly. Discussions, strategies, stories, crude cave-drawings, and more for Medieval 2, Empire, Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, Warhammer, Three Kingdoms, Troy, Pharaoh and others.