![]() 09/07/2018 at 14:05 • Filed to: shitposting | ![]() | ![]() |
“Is that a geodetic-design Vickers Wellesley
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“Should we use British Petroleum oils for RAF airplanes?”
“No, let’s rely on a company in a country that borders Germany.
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You’re getting deep into that rabbit hole....
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Was reading a page at the Barnes Wallis institute, had just gotten to the section on the Wellington, did the Freud thing. IYKWIM.
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Nah bro just happy to see you
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I was amused that the Wellesley had enough time in the spotlight in the interwar period to be considered as the icon of the future... long enough to be used not once but at least *twice* as a sales mascot. Nearly two and a half hundred miles an hour in a bomber was nothing to sneeze at for a few years. Nearly Boeing 299 speeds.
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Every time somebody produces the thing of the future , somebody moves the goalposts.
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Oh man. Part of me really wants to try making an aluminum roof box (i.e.: Thule or Yakima), but using that style of construction, and styled after that era of aircraft.