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Propaganda for the Metroliner

@balcony-cakes: "the fairchild metroliner. i don't like it. it's too long and thin and the wings are too small. why are you like that. stop it. it looks like a fucked up bug. it really pisses me off. and its name is stupid too."

Propaganda for the 707

Propaganda for the One-Eleven

@flavinbagel: "epic new stall just dropped"

"In the short-haul world of the new jet age, the Caravelle looked fast (and was) and the DC-9 was, well... there. So where then does a new British airframe slot in for the very small, rear-mounted twin-engine hopper that looks like the designer left all his curves at home segment? By being extraordinarily loud, for one, but more importantly by paving the way forward in how to fall out of the sky. As BAC's test pilots would fatally discover on the 111's prototype, having the engines and tailplane sit in the shadow of the wings at a certain angle of attack allows this design to stall in just the right way that the engines flame out, the elevators lose all authority, and literally nothing can be done to stop the violent careening toward the ground, the dreaded "Deep Stall." It can be argued then, that future developments of the rear twin T-tail design, which would become ubiquitous in small jets, have the One-11 to thank for having taken this epic rake-step. The production 1-Eleven itself was, of course, modified to prevent the deep stall from happening, but a muzzled monster can still growl from the shadows, and once the 737 hit the scene with its common engines and tendency to remaining airborne, the short, sad jet's short, sad career was all but over."

Propaganda for the CRJ-200

@continuedparadox: "Absolutely dogshit landing aoa and horrendous ground clearance. Everytime I'm a passenger on one I pray that the pilot has steady hands and won't accidentally tailstrike past runway minimums

And don't get me started on all the annoying inconsistencies during start-up when you're the pilot. Special honours to the APU which only works every third attempt on a full moon above the 23rd latitude in a garden of four-leaf clovers and needs a full coterie of santa's reindeer to give it a pep talk.

Propaganda for the A340

@lithominium: "too long. too thin. looks Ai Generated. Fucking Bad"

Propaganda for the MD-11

Propaganda for Concorde:

@flavinbagel (who also provided the delightful meme above): "What? It can't be!! But yes, your fave (and mine) is problematic, bestie. It's hard to ignore the elegance, the feat of ingenuity and human accomplishment, and the sheer engineering excellence of the fastest airliner to operate in commercial service. It's all too easy, then, to ignore that there were reasons why the Concorde was more commercially viable as a Lego set than as an aircraft. For one thing, it was loud when it was slow, and it was even louder when it was fast, and while being on the thing was grand, being below it (as most of us were) sucked major droop snoot. It also used 3 times more fuel per passenger than a 747 making the same transatlantic trek, while spewing soot and CO2 directly into the ozone layer. This was known for decades, but what has changed in view of more modern light is probably the prestige aspect of the supersonic airliner; flying Concorde meant being part of an elite club that proved you were in the big boy's club, where the wealthy and powerful shake hands with fistfuls of cash and a knowing nod. Hard now to believe we once viewed that with anything less than dreaded disgust, and the Concorde's legacy has soured with that shift. "It let you go to more meetings in one day!" so what? Meetings suck! Perhaps then, like the Saturn V or the Big Boy locomotive, the Concorde deserves to remain a revered marvel of engineering history, but history nonetheless."

Propaganda for the Beluga:

Anonymous: "It is called a Beluga, but unlike the current Beluga XL planes, Airbus didn't bother painting cute whale faces on them... Lame!"

Comparison of the original fuckass Beluga vs the beautiful Beluga XL: