• littleblue✨@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Tiiiiny nitpick: overland camo is, well, land colored. Marine camo is ocean colored. Basically, whatever color would be below the hardware when an enemy viewed it is the theme you want. For instance, ocean camo overland? Ain’t camouflage, now is it?

    • nuke@sh.itjust.worksM
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      7 months ago

      Too credible.

      None of this matters, everything was in black and white back then anyway until color was invented.

        • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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          7 months ago

          Yes, in “western” society Albert Hoffmann was the first person to see color. Among eg. Amazon tribes and First Nations folks in the US seeing color was more common, thanks to religious uses of hallucinogens.

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            7 months ago

            Anyone remember that Canadian kids show that changed from b&w to color during the broadcast?

            Edit- spelling

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      I’d heard the exact opposite about it being good to fly, specifically that it was incredibly hard to turn

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        It was a glider with a rocket, essentially. Apparently a lot of the test pilots liked it before they, well, died a death horrible enough that I don’t even feel that great wishing it on a nazi.

        Edit: also it may have been the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, one of the test pilots maxed out the speedo and reported a noise that he thought was the rocket exploding.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Oh yeah, this is a rocket plane. You only get a few minutes of bat-out-of-hell fwooshing before the fuel runs out and you engage in a controlled descent looking for some place to crash not crash ditch safely, and then walk away (hopefully not in enemy-controlled territory). The prop assisted in providing a bit more range on descent.

    It it weren’t in the middle of a war, this might be a ballsy sport.

  • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    On actually seeing the aircraft fly, Udet reportedly flew into a rage, declaring: “That is no airplane, leave it alone! I forbid you to fly it again.”

    Most credible Generaloberst Ernst Udet, tut tut no vision

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    If the Luftwaffe flight sims informed, its not the tendency of the plane to explode due to mismanaged engines that’ll kill you, but the super-finicky landing skids on terrain, rather than wheels on a landing strip.

    But then, going up against a sea of B-17s in a Bf-109 was pretty suicidal anyway, so Luftwaffe pilots were willing to try anything, including rocket planes.

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    7 months ago

    They were getting desperate late in the war.

    A “probably-one-way 🤷🏼‍♂️” plane would at least seem better than a Zero kamikaze.