Roland had no idea how his friend judged him, nor did he know that his childhood friend was the one facing him now. At this moment, Roland was fully engaged in addressing the "technical challenges" his friend had pointed out.
In any world devoid of computers, aerodynamics, fundamental theories of aeronautical engineering, overall aircraft structural design and strength analysis, testing capabilities... and so on, strap-on rockets were death traps, even more dangerous than suicide rockets—while suicide rockets could at least inflict some damage to the enemy, the casualties from ill-conceived strap-on rockets would all be one's own people...
