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KB2VXA > FLIGHT 29.01.13 23:19l 32 Lines 1380 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 33422_VK6ZRT
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > Mosquito
Path: ON0AR<ON4HU<IW0QNL<IK6ZDE<VE2PKT<VK2DOT<VK2RQ<VK6ZRT
Sent: 130129/2204Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:33422 [Boyanup] $:33422_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : FLIGHT@WW
Hi Pete and all,
Sorry old bean, I tend to get names of aircraft mixed up and thought the
Mosquito was a trainer/recon aircraft. I just looked it up, turns out it was
a British medium fighter-bomber. So if tou got the info first hand why did
you mix the Mosquito comment with those about a book? Lumping subjects
together in the same paragraph is confusing.
Speaking of WW1 bombing, a related subject is flying aircraft carriers. There
were many ways a bomber or airship carried one or more fighters and the crane
mechanism was a work of art if not tricky when one was retreived. R&D went on
right into WW2 with a figher with folding wings was carried in the bomb bay,
easy to launch but getting it back in was too problematical and dangerous so
the project was scrapped.
Let the Brits and Aussies argue 'till the cows come home, they didn't see the
TV presentation that proved it was an Aussie on the ground, another name
escapes me. The test was very elaborate using laser sighting techniques to
duplicate positions and angle of fire but in the end there was no doubt.
Don't tell Snoopy it was a rifleman on the ground who nailed the Red Baron,
it would spoil his fun.
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 21:42 on 2013-Jan-29 GMT
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