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[hawkeye2an]

In 1942, there was an aero engineer who thought to himself, "Ya know, there's got to be a way to make this plane uglier…"

....and let's put the boom on upside down to REALLY mess with people

 

[MiTasol]

Douglas B-18B (SN 37-530, originally a B-18A) with the MAD tail boom WIKI
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I had not known that MAD existed that far back.