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Pigs do fly (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore-Brabazon,_1st_Baron_Brabazon_of_Tara#Pioneer_aviator

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Porco Rosso!

[-] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Turns out he turned into a pig before WW1 lol

[-] Dampyr@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

This brings to mind this gizzard song

Whole album is a banger honestly

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago

If this is really the first, then pigs are pretty late to the flying barnyard animals game. The bird ones have flown for a long time obviously, but sheep flew as early as 1783

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hmm, not sure about the word "flying." Maybe levitating / soaring / coasting / drifting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers

[-] molestme247@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

TiL: The police have been using planes for a long time, to catch speeders

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

do we include trebuchepigs?

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