X-32… Imagine if Boeing won the bid for the shit show that is the JSF program. The F-35 rolls upside down have ejects that pilot directly into the ground if a raindrop looks at it wrong. But the Boeing proposal was even more complicated, stabilized by mini jet output nozzles around the airframe because… It wasn’t aerodynamically stable.

Insert obligatory Canadian boomer whining about the Avro Arrow

Those don’t even look that crazy. Something like Lerche and Triebflugel, the VVA14 and Lun class ekranoplans, Antonov A-40, whatever the fuck Burt Rutan makes, ME-163 with it’s only 7.5 minutes worth of fuel, the Zveno project and even crazier Akron class airships, etc. are more kind of my jam.

Stupid russians put the wings backwards