comparison from B 17 to B 29 to B 36

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a wing tip to wing tip coupling to get fighter/recon planes in the bombing region with less fuel used, worked. The reduced drag made up for the increased weight

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interesting waste of money military research project.

I figure millions of dollars, a couple years to get it to work, a couple trials and then it got shelved. I could be wrong. That amount of funding could probably have built a couple hydo electric dams, bridges, paved a hell of a lot of roads, or put a bunch of high school kids through college which would have rewarded USA with productive professionals with great lives who could have put their kids through college and then many people would be paying more taxes and less people would be poor and living off govt subsidies to poverty. Instead, they wasted the money.

"did not indicate any appreciatble stability" he says... go figure.

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