Nonsnese!
After the fuel would run out the nanoquarkotrons would be automaticaly triggered initiating annihilation of the time-space continuum in the radius of 3,1415 miles each…
Pretty scarry perspective! But since you live 20 miles avay it would not had been much trouble for your grand parents.
Yours, too, if it annihilates everything for 31,415 miles 
And here is the British input into what been said to be “gone far beyond that height of absurdity”
Vickers August 27 1941
Saunders-Roe P.1033
“The Saunders-Roe P.1033 project of 1940 is mentioned as a tank carrying aircraft, and that
remains the Antonov Krilya Tanka (not perfectly a twin-boomer) or the Christie M-1932 (older).
The P.1033’s caterpillars were not used as a landing gear – there were wheels below, that would
be removed with the wings. On the An KT, the tracks were the only landing device and reaching
100mph (160km/h) for take off with them would have been a problem, but a Packet twin-boomer
used a caterpillar landing gear for rough fields, and it worked in 1947.”
and this one
Thinking of flying Valentines…
