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BRITAIN IS SEEKING WAR PLANES HERE (Real Time + 70 Years)
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Posted on 04/14/2008 6:42:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
There is an error in your title. This story is
Real Time - 70 Years."Real Time +70 Years" would be 2078. There is only one "real time." Now.
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posted on
04/14/2008 7:44:41 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Bitterly clinging to religion and guns here in Penna.)
To: agere_contra
The "battle of the beams" during the British/German bombing campaigns used somewhat similar principles to get bombers to roughly the right areas.I wouldn't want to be on an aircraft that is being remotely landed in "roughly the right area."
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posted on
04/14/2008 7:44:46 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
(For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
To: Moose4
I once read (and I can’t substantiate where I read it) that one of the major reasons Germany lost the war was because it did not build a long-range bomber.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Ah, I just remembered the absolute altimeter, which was radio-based and which was certainly available in 1938. It just timed the delay in ground-reflected waves to work out distance above ground.
THAT plus the cone thing would have helped a lot in blind landings.
To: Petronski
There is an error in your title. This story is Real Time - 70 Years.I got the message the last time you posted it. It is still wrong. See my tagline.
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posted on
04/14/2008 7:47:20 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
(For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
It is still wrong.Yes. Next time do it right.
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posted on
04/14/2008 7:48:12 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Bitterly clinging to religion and guns here in Penna.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
This will bend your head. An F-15 Strike Eagle can carry more bomb load than a B-17.
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posted on
04/14/2008 7:49:06 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
I wouldn't want to be on an aircraft that is being remotely landed in "roughly the right area."LOL, yes. My post 24 clears that up I hope.
Hmm, why ever am I thinking of the mysterious death of Ron Brown all of a sudden?
To: agere_contra
the absolute altimeter, which was radio-based and which was certainly available in 1938. It just timed the delay in ground-reflected waves to work out distance above ground.[Puts on glasses and rubs chin thoughtfully] Hmmm. Ground-reflected waves. It just might be crazy enough to work!
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posted on
04/14/2008 7:57:03 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
(For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
To: Petronski
Dude, it IS 2078.
Summer Glau has been the dishy terminatrix-President of the United States ever since the world ended in 2015.
The only newspapers left in the world are the ones in Homer’s basement, hence these articles.
To: mad_as_he$$
An F-15 Strike Eagle can carry more bomb load than a B-17.Faster, too, I'll bet.
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode where some 1960's era soldiers are magically transported back to the Little Big Horn where they share Custer's fate. Their sergeant back in the twentieth century says something like, "Too bad they didn't take a tank with them."
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:01:41 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
(For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
To: agere_contra
That explanation is more plausible than multiple 'real' times.
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:12:03 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Bitterly clinging to religion and guns here in Penna.)
To: Eurale
Back then, the NYT was against communists - as opposed to today.Odd comment, considering the masterful job Walter Duranty did in covering up Stalin's atrocities.
To: Homer_J_Simpson
I hope they get those planes in time!
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:21:42 AM PDT
by
Minutemen
("It's a Religion of Peace")
To: Homer_J_Simpson
At about this same time my Dad got sent to the panhandle of Florida to build airfields to train those Brits to fly those planes.
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:36:58 AM PDT
by
fella
(Is he al-taquiya or is he murtadd? Only his iman knows for sure.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
I understand the main planes we ended up with, pre-war, were the B-24 Liberator (Good), the PBY Catalina (Very Good) and the Brewster Buffalo (Very Bad).
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:43:46 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: fella
At about this same time my Dad got sent to the panhandle of Florida to build airfields to train those Brits to fly those planes.Any connection to this factoid found at http://www.pafw.com/nasp.htm?
In 1938, federal legislation authorized a 3,000 aircraft ceiling for Naval Aviation, which in turn brought additional growth to The Pensacola Naval Air Station. Auxiliary airfields were added in and around Pensacola.
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posted on
04/14/2008 8:50:51 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
(For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Here is a question for the military experts among us. Did any nation have heavy bombers capable of an England-Berlin round trip? In production quantities, that is. Great Britain for one.
- Armstrong Whitworth Whitley 80 MkI/II ordered August 1935 - IOC March 1937
- Handley Page Hampton (a medium, but could reach Berlin) 180 MkI ordered August 1936, IOC September 1938
- Vickers Wellington, 180 MkI ordered August 1936, IOC October 1938
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posted on
04/14/2008 9:21:16 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(So you want to be President - it's like reality TV, only real)
To: agere_contra
Hah! I just knew Tin Miss was working on some scheme of her own
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posted on
04/14/2008 9:36:12 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(So you want to be President - it's like reality TV, only real)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Good episode of TZ. The advancements in aircraft in the past 70 years are truly amazing - tanks too!!
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posted on
04/14/2008 9:36:48 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(John McCain - The Manchurian Candidate? http://www.usvetdsp.com/manchuan.htm)
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