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New Trope Candidate -- looking for examples
 
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I don't know whether this should count as "Literature" or "Other Media," and I'm not even sure it quite fits what you had in mind, but Playboy in the 1960s ran a humor article by Brock Yates (of Car and Driver magazine) and artist-writer Bruce McCall depicting several deliberately silly designs, "Major Howdy Bixby's Album of Forgotten Warbirds."   
These included a Japanese pedal-powered papier-mâché "bomber," known to Americans as the "Shirley" and intended to drop a rabid dog on a Yank ship; Britain's Humbley-Pudge Gallipoli Heavyish Bomber; an Italian Caproni-Moroni design built so it could reverse course without turning in order to more quickly join the forces it'd been sent to attack; and the Soviets' Snud U-14 transport, constructed with a bent fuselage due to the blueprint being wrinkled.
Letters to the editor pretending to take this seriously (and praise it) came in from John W. R. Taylor, then-editor of Jane's All the World's Aircraft, and from Ray Wagner, author of American Combat Planes (1960), who even joked that he'd seen "the Humbley-Pudge leading an R.A.F. review given by Prime Minister Churchill in honor of Neville Chamberlain and Sir Oswald Moseley."
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