Military Experiments with Bat Wings



Batman would have been proud. In 1942, California's state defense force experimented with bat-like wingsuits for soldiers. The ultimate goal, as explained by the magazine Mechanix Illustrated, was to create an airborne unit that could be deployed with them.

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