.....showing toes is not the daring thing to do, because more than half Japan's tradies don't have them any more and you know what that means.
As in the nutcase example of the Flying Car (in Nature do we see flying bulls, flying worms, or buzzing BlowCats?) there was a small goup in AUF who had been working for 40 years to develop a flying Komatsu. We won't say who they are to save embarrassment, but one of them doesn't live in the Eastern States.
There were regular posts about D-375s with wings - flying Dozers. As some people had pointed out, if you're going to knock scrub down you put it in drive, give it WOT and sit back until you've covered 15 km with the 4.777 metre wide blade, so there's the obvious problem of the huge wings being crumpled by the trees each side. Someone suggested making them out of steel and grinding the leading edges. Another pointed out the D-358 weighed 74 tonnes but that was just met with silence from the group.
And still the flying dozer [avref] thread comments came, until..............