Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, July 5, 2015

72 Year Old "Ooopsie"

A B-17 bomber, out on a night training flight, dropped practice bombs on Boise City, Oklahoma.

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3 comments:

CenterPuke88 said...

12 years ago a F117A bombed Texas....

http://www.f-117a.com/texas.html

7/06/2015 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...

I'm trying to figure out why they were practicing night bombing. The USAAF philosophy was day bombing, they never adopted the complex avionics, such as Oboe, needed for night bombing.

Al_in_Ottawa

7/06/2015 11:09 PM
BadTux said...

Aircrew losses in mid 1943 from day bombing over Germany were horrific. The Brits had switched to night bombing for just that reason. The USAAF had to stop their bombing campaign for several months due to the unsustainable losses and figure out what to do. Switching to night bombing using British methods and equipment was an obvious choice. One of the things the Brits did was send out "pathfinder" aircraft which then dropped flares onto the target. Another of the things tried was one of the early radar units, which was enough to detect the general outlines of cities at night and do area bombing, and they did do a little of that.

In the end, of course, the arrival of the longer-ranged Merlin-powered Mustang allowed fighter escort of the bombers over target and the USAAF never did widespread night bombing. But there was a time there where it seemed they'd need to do so, and air crews were being trained to do so.

7/07/2015 5:05 AM

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