• marcos@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Maybe even during a war they weren’t able to find any pilots wanting to use those things.

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      3 months ago

      According the the article linked it didn’t even pass the testing phase, because surprise-surprise guys kept crashing. That was the 50’s in peacetime, and the whole thing probably started because helicopters were the hype of the era and there was a lot of funding.