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There's no way anyone can beat the engine count on a Boeing [[B-52]] Stratocruiser, as there is not an aircraft designer in history foolish enough to try to fit ''nine'' engines on the same plane — these days, four is considered profligate — and even in the giddy heights of the Cold War, Boeing only tried it once. Thus the B-52 stands alone, quite impeachable. | There's no way anyone can beat the engine count on a Boeing [[B-52]] Stratocruiser, as there is not an aircraft designer in history foolish enough to try to fit ''nine'' engines on the same plane — these days, four is considered profligate — and even in the giddy heights of the Cold War, Boeing only tried it once. Thus the B-52 stands alone, quite impeachable. | ||
“[[Eight jet engines]]” is its own kind of [[knee-slide]], and [[legal eagle]]s of a certain vintage (mine) may happily squawk it, as they dispatche that exquisitely-times comment, wry rejoinder, devastating [[provuso]], or [[oneNDA|potentially game-changing industry initiative]]. | |||
But careful: it is easy to confuse a real [[eight jet engines]] situation with | But careful: it is easy to confuse a real [[eight jet engines]] situation with the much less edifying “[[two Wankel engines]]” scenario — so named for the Mazda RX-3’s curious double rotary configuration, as featured in [[Top Trumps]] [[supercars]] edition. | ||
The player opting for the “[[Wankel gambit]]” quickly discovers what he thought would be a triumphal master stroke was nothing of the kind: his fellow players are momentarily baffled, then irritated, and quickly form a consensus that the 370 bhp V12 Lamborghini wins, and move on. The sensible “Wankeler” accepts his peers’ judgment surrenders his card and carries on; the foolhardy one stamps his feet, insists hotly he has been mistreated, and storms off to stew in righteous dudgeon about the cruelty of the world. | The rotary Mazda is basically ''[[sui generis]]'', and in the context of the game, just confusing, and you wonder what the manufacturers had in mind by including it. | ||
The player opting for the “[[Wankel gambit]]” quickly discovers what he thought would be a triumphal master stroke was nothing of the kind: his fellow players are momentarily baffled, then irritated, and quickly form a consensus that the 370 bhp V12 Lamborghini wins, and move on. | |||
The sensible “Wankeler” accepts his peers’ judgment, surrenders his card and carries on; the foolhardy one stamps his feet, insists hotly he has been mistreated, and storms off to stew in righteous dudgeon about the cruelty of the world. | |||
But enough about me. | But enough about me. |