Boeing winning the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance fighter contract may have been a bit of a surprise to some, but it set the company up to have its F-47 make good on losing out on the Joint Strike Fighter to Lockheed Martin two and a half decades ago. As a result of that very high-stakes competition, a jet that would become an aerospace cultural icon — for all the wrong reasons, and maybe undeservingly so — would live on, often as the butt of jokes and internet memes: Boeing’s slack-jawed X-32.
The shirt was born from a meme I created that made its rounds on social media shortly after the F-47 contract award to Boeing. In it, we see the F-47 in a flag-draped hangar with the X-32 looming over it, giving a command of family vengeance: “Rise and avenge me my son…” Now, we are recreating it in stylized wearable fashion!
Click here to grab yours for $25 over at our partner Blipshift.com.
They are available in various materials, as well as long-sleeve and hoodies.
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