The FReeper Foxhole Studies USAAF Night Fighters at War ~ Part 2 of 3 - Jan. 17, 2004

http://www.usaaf.net/ww2/night/index.htm ^ | Stephen L. McFarland

[Darksheare]

I killed the thread!
And when the thread is dead, the furniture comes to LIFE:

[snippy_about_it]

No apology necessary,looks like we're all pretty busy lately. Oh well, free time comes and goes and chores have to be done eventually!

[snippy_about_it]

Goodness, what the heck is that. LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

Goodness, what the heck is that. LOL.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi SW, good to see you.

[Professional Engineer]

Convents aren't exactly the best place for a male heretic to hide

Or pickup chicks.

[SAMWolf]

LOL I've been buried too

Darksheare the thread killer

[SAMWolf]

Convents aren't exactly the best place for a male heretic to hide Or pickup chicks.

Unless you're Lancelot looking for the Holy Grail ;-)

[Professional Engineer]

Here's my favorite threadkiller tombstone

[SAMWolf]

Oooo!Nice You should add "Threadkiller" to it. ;-)

[Professional Engineer]

I've thought "He's Dead, Jim!" would be cool.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! That'd be good

[PhilDragoo]

DAP Mark 21 Beaufighter A8 – 328

Revell’s 1:32 model modified to a TF Mk.10

High resolution Bristol Beaufighter engine mounts

DAP Beaufighter 21 In Detail

Beaufighter with radar in flight

Shown above is the Beaufighter I (X7579) with experimental A.I.Mk.VIII radar "thimble" nose.

255 Squadron, B Flight, Sicilie September 1943. Beaufighter V1f. F/Off Joseph Berry (Middelste rij, 2e van rechts)

Early Mk X's carried ASV (air-to-surface vessel) radar, but this was eventually replaced by AI Mark VIII radar, adapted for use against surface targets, and housed in a 'thimble-nose' radome.

Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892-1973), a descendant of James Watt, received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and in 1915 began a career in the British civil service, He patented his first radio location device, a device for locating atmospheric discharges, in 1919. In 1935, he received his eleventh radio-location patent, a device for detecting and locating an approaching aircraft. In the following years he was the leader of the intensive development of aircraft radio-location, the secret weapon of the Battle of Britain. In 1937, before the war began, Watson-Watt and his wife undertook the dangerous task of traveling disguised as ordinary tourists through Germany, searching for signs of German radar stations.

Isador Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) was brought to the United States at age three by his parents to escape the poverty of Eastern Europe. His father labored in the sweatshops of New York City and then opened a grocery store in Brooklyn to escape the tenements of Manhattan. Rabi earned his degrees at Columbia and Cornell, and became a professor of Physics at Columbia in 1937. In 1940, Rabi took leave from Columbia to become director of research at the newly-formed MIT Radiation Laboratory. Rabi, who hated the Nazis, would respond to any proposed project by asking, "How many Germans will it kill?" The projects under his immediate direction involved increasing the power and frequency of the magnetron oscillators. In 1944 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his (1937) invention of the magnetic resonance method for determining atomic spectra.

Luis Walter Alvarez (1911-1988) was one of the most versatile of the physicists who worked at the Radiation Laboratory. Alvarez, who was of Irish-Spanish descent, was the son of a prominent Mayo Clinic physician. He began his career as a nuclear physicist at Berkeley in 1937 and made a number of fundamental discoveries. In 1940 he joined the Radiation Laboratory staff and invented the Ground-Controlled Approach radar for aircraft landing, a microwave early warning radar, and a precision high-altitude bombing radar. In 1944 he transferred to the Manhattan project, where he invented the implosion system for initiating atomic explosions. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1968 for his development of the hydrogen bubble chamber and the discovery of many subatomic particles. In 1980, he and his son, a geologist, co-authored the theory of the catastrophic annihilation of the dinosaurs as the result of a massive meteorite impact.

Alvarez subsequently invented a device to focus plasma tractor beams to divert meteors to strike selected targets on earth.

After Alvarez suspicious death on a canoeing trip with former DCI William Colby, NSA launched an Alvarez device into a high-Earth orbit.

Its first use this month resulted in an impact in Iran's northern Whoa region.

Khamenei has to be asking himself, "Do I feel lucky?"

Well. . . .do you?

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Rabi, who hated the Nazis, would respond to any proposed project by asking, "How many Germans will it kill?"

I like the way he thought, I ask the same thing about any operation mounted against the Muslims

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

focus plasma tractor beams to divert meteors to strike selected targets on earth.

Could Syria be next?

LOL. Thanks Phil.

[Darksheare]

That would be furniture coming to life.
*chuckle*

[Darksheare]

Well...
The picking up is easy.
It's holding on that's the hard part.

[Darksheare]

When the thread is dead, the furniture comes to life.
That's the couch making a break for it.

[gatorbait]

Pretty much, yeah,,Theres a helluva a lot out there onthe Loserwaffe ,not much on the US, so "Queen of the Midnight Skies"is pretty much it for USAAF ops.