Caleb Larson
History, Europe
The plane’s biggest achievement was actually just flying—though it flew badly.
Here's What You Need to Know: This ungainly French plane was not meant to be.
In the heady opening years of the Cold War, war planners assumed that the next European war’s opening salvos would have a nuclear start. The thinking was that high priority and immobile targets like communication centers, command posts, and airfields would be the first targets taken out by massive mushroom-causing explosions. Читать дальше...