Comments by "Barry On" (@barryon8706) on "Found And Explained" channel.

  1. It's a nice idea in a couple ways, the ring shape having a lot of structural strength and it gets rid of the wingtip vortices. It's all those little gotchas that change it from a nice idea in principle to a poor idea in practice.
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  2. These never-built aircraft have a perfect safety record, with not a single crash.
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  3. It doesn't look like it has enough wing.
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  4. if they'd gotten the fission bomb I don't think they would have needed a space plane. Western Europe would have been a couple nukes away from saying, "Time for a treaty! Current borders are fine."
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  5. Would being able to bomb New York have really made that much difference to the outcome of the war? As long as factories were out of reach and other large east coast harbors existed, materiel could keep flowing to Europe.
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  6. In a way. It would go ballistic after each bounce, so...
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