Jakki wrote:
Yes..Yes.. defying logic....certainly..you gotta sometimes wonder if the Engineers onsite at the time . Must either had too much time to be lazy at their jobs...or possibly, what were they drinking when they made these designs....?.

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Nah, they just understood that forward swept wings avoid some problems associated with traditional swept wings. The main downside is that they're subjected to strong twisting forces that made them not really an option without modern composites, without those materials the weight would be too high.
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