I heard a thought the other day about the piece of hardware I used to program. They said of the B-52 that its eight engines had the power of 10 railroad locomotives, it was constructed of enough aluminum to make 5,000 trash cans, and its avionics were interconnected with 10,000 feet of wire..
..and it flew exactly like that: 5,000 trash cans lashed together with 10,000 feet of cable and pulled by 10 locomotives.
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