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There’s no way anyone can beat the engine count on a Boeing [[B-52]] Stratocruiser: 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: 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. | ||
[[File:Eight jet engines.png|200px|thumb|left|With engine count, in original.]] | |||
So good, in fact, that in the modern game they ''removed'' the engine count criteria altogether. | |||
“[[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 dispatch that exquisitely-timed [[mark-up]], wry rejoinder, devastating [[provuso]], or [[oneNDA|potentially game-changing industry initiative]]. | “[[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 dispatch that exquisitely-timed [[mark-up]], wry rejoinder, devastating [[provuso]], or [[oneNDA|potentially game-changing industry initiative]]. | ||