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Old 03-11-2008, 04:39 PM
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B-Manic - Actually, the pilot was intended to keep on flying all the way to the Japanese-held Pacific and land there. Which, of course, never would've happened because it didn't have the requisite heat-shielding...

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It would need to have an incredible glide ratio to be low enough to drop bombs in the eastern US (planned target), cross North America, then head north across the Pacific to Japan. Just another reason it was never built I guess.
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