NASA M2-F1 “Flying Bathtub”
The NASA M2-F1 was one of the oddest-looking aircraft ever to take to the skies—so strange that it earned the nickname “the flying bathtub.”
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The NASA M2-F1 was one of the oddest-looking aircraft ever to take to the skies—so strange that it earned the nickname “the flying bathtub.”
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