DragonFire
CGN Regular
- Location
- mid Canada
Yes Sir, somewhere up there.
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That old girl looks like it's in the middle of being trashed. Tail is on the ground and the high weeds around the wheel are all indicators.
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Just to gain some perspective here are two exact contemporaries of Amiot 143.Dornier 23 and Boeing YB-9.Amiot was arguably the best compromise of the lot and the only one seeing armed combat when other two weren't around anymore (not even as trainers).
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Yeah, fair enough. Think of it as the "awkward teenage years" of military aviation.
Yet another example - The Beardmore Inflexible, in service from 1928 to 1930. Two whole years...
With a wingspan about the same distance as London to Berlin, it was a conglomeration of weird dimensions, off proportions, and perfectly straight lines. All the grace and swoopy, slick, ###y charm of a sidewalk block.
A scant five years after the last Inflexible was retired the world met K5054, the prototype Spitfire, as lovely and graceful an object as has ever flown.
Is it any wonder people thought Mitchell was a feckin' genius?
Yet another example - The Beardmore Inflexible, in service from 1928 to 1930. Two whole years...
With a wingspan about the same distance as London to Berlin, it was a conglomeration of weird dimensions, off proportions, and perfectly straight lines. All the grace and swoopy, slick, ###y charm of a sidewalk block.
A scant five years after the last Inflexible was retired the world met K5054, the prototype Spitfire, as lovely and graceful an object as has ever flown.
Is it any wonder people thought Mitchell was a feckin' genius?
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Fantastic effort. DC3 prop and a soup ladle for a rear view mirror. Master of invention that guy. My only hope is that, being mostly made out of wood, he realizes he can't snap it all over the sky like a real Spitfire, though he could with that Allison.
Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
If the Americans hadn't needed Werner desperately, he'd have been tried as a war criminal.
Grizz
- Location
- Leduc County, Alberta
Alles Klar, Herr Kommisar...
Everything is just groovy in der DDR!
Everything is just groovy in der DDR!
Far more difficult to handle was surrendered chemical weapons. All combatant countries, both Axis and Allied, stockpiled chemical weapons for expected massive gas attacks which thankfully never came during WWII.
There were several methods employed to dispose of Germany’s massive stockpile. The safest, and most difficult and expensive, is shown above at St. Georgen, Germany in June 1946, a little over a year after Germany’s surrender. German workers in Luftwaffe-issue gas masks are pumping out mustard gas (HD in the modern US Army code) from Luftwaffe 500 lbs gas bombs. The mustard gas (which despite it’s name is actually a liquid misted at detonation) was then inerted by a specialist US Army team while the empty bombs were decontaminated and melted as scrap.
All the common stuff, like sulfur mustard, were surplus goods. What's really interesting is what happened to the stocks and equipment for Sarin/Tabun/Soman. What wasn't dumped by the Germans was whisked away by the allies for research and, ultimately, production. That the Germans had anywhere between 500kg and 10 tons of the stuff, kept it from allied knowledge, and then didn't use it (likely due to fear of reprisal in kind and a false belief that the allies knew of the product and would have defensive measures in place) is a miracle. The troops landed in Normandy without gas masks or protection of any sort, it stayed on the ships.
It would have been a very different story if the invasion beaches were splashed with Sarin, though Albert Speer has been quoted as stating he would have actively prevented any shipments of nerve agents from getting to their destination.
A light weight machine, till you spot the AT missile on the turret.
Keeping in mind that 550 rounds per minute of 30x165mm HEI, AP or APDS can also totally ruin your day if you're in a lightly armoured vehicle or APC, or potentially even achieve a mission kill on your main battle tank.
