A completely random but fascinating knowledge nugget.
Between the wars it was very important to build large complicated things to explore remote places with. 
Remember when we were going to go coast to coast in 4 hours? autoevolution.com/news/tupolev-t…
and my favorite relic... the Ekranoplan that didn't actually fly (It was a hydroplane) but would deliver Russian nukes under our radar.
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