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Nuclear consent switch on an F-16 Fighting Falcon (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/historyphotos@piefed.social
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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Folding wings is practically the trademark of the F-14 Tomcat. I understand why we stopped making planes that do that, but I thought the folding wings was the coolest shit as a kid.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    Right up there with suicide doors and the bench-seat as trunk-space "upgrade". 🤣

    As a kid, I was super interested in entering/exiting vehicles being dramatically faster, and spent years watching every trip go by via rearview w/ the fam noise in the back of my mind. ☝🏼

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Also (correct me where I’m wrong) I thought the F16 seated two, a pilot and a weapons officer, while the f14 only had the pilot? And I thought the GI Joe toy sat two. Of course the folding wing would be the much more obvious identifier, given it’s a toy and a replica where they probably took a lot of license, and this isn’t that tank wars forum where everyone is posting military secret schematics for akshually points.

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