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Atomic bomb re-enacting dropped from Ohio air show
Associated Press ^ | April 18, 2013 | By DAN SEWELL

Posted on 04/18/2013 8:54:51 AM PDT by oxcart

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To: oxcart

I don’t know about this glamorization of destruction business, but the idea of a “great wall of fire” reenactment of about 100,000 people being killed seems to be in poor taste.


21 posted on 04/18/2013 10:13:58 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: EEGator

An excellent movie and I highly recommend it. The films of the explosions had been reworked to bring out all the color from the original film faded with age.


22 posted on 04/18/2013 10:17:10 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: sunny48

In the ground-level view, right after the cloud lifts, there is a large dark spot briefly visible on the right side of the mushroom stem...that’s a ship flying though the air.


23 posted on 04/18/2013 10:20:23 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

He saw a ship lifted right out of the water. Pointed it out on a map he has of the test ships.
I’ll try to find out the name of it.


24 posted on 04/18/2013 10:33:52 AM PDT by sunny48
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To: oxcart; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

"It blowed up REAL GOOD!"

25 posted on 04/18/2013 11:19:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: oxcart; Revolting cat!
Gabriela Pickett started an online petition to object to the "glamorization of destruction," and said it didn't reflect Dayton's image as a city of peace. Dozens of people around the country signed it.

DOZENS across the country signed it, you say?!!


26 posted on 04/18/2013 11:21:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: oxcart
Any Stan Freeberg fans out there?

Live, on stage, for one time only...the Hydrogen Bomb!

27 posted on 04/18/2013 11:51:34 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: sunny48

The power of that explosion is amazing to see. Just look at the size compared to the ships.


28 posted on 04/18/2013 11:52:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Cyber Liberty; Wiggins

I’ve got the Blu-Ray. We watched the documentary in one of my tech schools in the USAF.


29 posted on 04/18/2013 11:53:59 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

When you get a chance, listen to the secondary audio. There are a lot of director’s comments you might find interesting.


30 posted on 04/18/2013 12:05:44 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Thanks, will do.


31 posted on 04/18/2013 12:08:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: oxcart

Well hell, FiFi isn’t dropping a real atomic bomb.

She’s not dropping anything...it’s buried pyrotechnics...like a movie.

But, we can’t “offend” anybody...so... Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima never happened.


32 posted on 04/18/2013 2:32:41 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: oxcart

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that the then Confederate, now Commemorative Air Force, would have told the busybodies to pound sand.

In fact they were famous for telling them to mind their own business, that the air show was historically accurate, and the A-Bomb demo was instructive.

I have seen the Miss FiFi A-Bomb demonstration several times, and was always very impressed with the manner of presentation, not to mention the nifty mushroom cloud!

As Rush said today, in reference to another issue, there is a point where “NO!” is the only answer.

Air Show organizers should have said “NO!” And dropped their bomb!


33 posted on 04/18/2013 7:32:22 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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