BONUS EPISODE: The Christmas Bullet *LIVE IN LONDON*
Joe, Tom, and Nate take the stage at the Big Fat Festival in London to talk about the time a man scammed the government, killed multiple peo
Joe, Tom, and Nate take the stage at the Big Fat Festival in London to talk about the time a man scammed the government, killed multiple people, and got away with it all while building quite possibly the worst plane that has ever attempted flight.
Sources:
Thomas Parramore. First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation.
https://www.wired.com/2014/12/well-didnt-work-plane-flapped-like-bird-fraud-built/
https://www.jalopnik.com/the-christmas-bullet-was-the-worst-plane-ever-made-1825187889/
Comments (25)
In defense of the Wright brothers the crash that killed Lt. Selfridge broke Orville’s femur and several of his ribs, so he didn’t walk away from that crash, that MFer got carried away
Mohammed Atta Airlines, Thomas Selfridge Air Base, and Abdul Rashid Dostum Express. We need more "product that will kill you" names
Switzerland not neutral in the Coke/Pepsi wars I see
Heard this described in the past as “like something out of a folk song”
I’d just like to mention that Burnelli went on to have a reasonable career in aeronautical engineering, and his most successful design was called the Loadmaster.
Naming it the "Christmas Bullet II" like my Kerbal Space Program project when I have added literally one strut
Oooh a topic I know nothing about. What fresh horrors await?
Side note, I hate Phil Collins. Please put him on one of these invisible planes and turn them loose on a transcontinental flight.
Re: using highly advanced tech to be petty. There is a Warhammer 40k book called The Infinite and the Divine where two near immortal robots with technology that is basically magic use it to fuck with each other for an entire book. One uses time travel to win a court case against the other. The other teleports into his rival's house and shoots him. When his rival, bleeding on the floor says, "I don't have the thing you want!" The shooter responds, "I don't care." and leaves.
You ever wanna hear some of the most insane circle talking find the speech Dr.Christmas gave to the congressional committee they had him stand in front of to try and explain this whole mess. It’s great.
The field of American Ornithoptrics needs a rennaisance.
Dodo a'la Parthian stay my execution while people de-extinction the Dodo, try some silphium.
An Oklahoma Christmas Bullet is what happens when dad gets fired during the holidays.
Fucking love the chaos in this.
GUERRILLA WARFARE!
I admire your commitment to calling the Dr a flim flam man. One of my favorite terms
Thank you for an amazing show! I still can’t believe the plane even got off the ground.
This is not far off from what happened with the flying Ford Pinto.
When a guy no one in the present ever heard about turns out to be one of the greatest grifters of the last century.
Oh fuck, this guy. A guy called Tex from The Black Pants Legion did a great YouTube doc about him. Highly recommend
Yea "A Christmas to Remember" is a great piece of work.
Totally agree with Thom on the people needing to place thier weights back correctly after using them in the gym. Literally just witnessed it yesterday.
Hate it when my wind turbines get turned off by Big Wind Lobby 😂
I’m guessing this is the more right wing version of Christmas Shoes
Dude I’m dead lmao. instead of being too poor to afford the shoes, the little boy is also black in the Jim Crow south in a whites only shoe store.