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2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

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Was this the peak of human engineering?

>> No.15574438

Dildos

>> No.15574505

>>15574428
I saw a weird plane that sort of looked like that fly over my house. Might have been one of those.

>> No.15574518

No

>> No.15574521

>>15574428
There's a reason they stopped flying those. Loud as fuck, expensive maintenance and gorges on fuel. Really wish they were still around though.

>> No.15574629

>>15574428
>peak engineering
>shutdown after few use case
>extreme noise so that it cant fly over cities
>expensive as fuck
>unsafe

>> No.15574643

the Tu-114 was a better plane in every way

>> No.15574725
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>>15574428
No, this was.

>> No.15574751

>>15574521
That isn't why they stopped flying. The French and British SST programs were ended because the managers of the government funded airlines refused to charge a high enough ticket price to cover the cost of operation and as a result the SSTs always lost money. Surveys of the passengers always said that they would be willing to pay for much higher ticket prices, but instead the government's managers insisted on having the SST losses covered by the profits made off of middle class subsonic travelers.

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>> No.15574817

>>15574428
>>15574725
I really dislike that the noses are pointing downwards.

>> No.15575654

>>15574817
They had to do it, because the pilots couldn't see the runway because of the pointy nose. It wasn't a gimmick.

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>>15574817
It could go up. Also, retractable canards.

>> No.15575920

>>15574428
No, but it's absence is a sign of the genetic decline of our populations. Dysgenic selection pressures are slowing down innovation, eventually the genetic load will become too great to sustain, at that point civilization will simply fall apart as there is no one smart enough to maintain it.