You gotta see Waldo Pepper, Steve. It's almost as good as "The Dambusters". BTW did you see the documentary where they recreated the development and testing of the bombs and the technique originaly used? Arnie Schroder of "Ice Pilots" fame flew the airplane that dropped the recreated bomb. Great video.
Cheers,
Jerry
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Never heard of either of those.....
Unfortunately in science what you believe is irrelevant.
"I'm an old-fashioned Southern Gentleman. Which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-***** when I want to be."- Robert A. Heinlein.
Nope but I will definitely go and look for the documentary. Do you recall what it was called?BTW did you see the documentary where they recreated the development and testing of the bombs and the technique originaly used? Arnie Schroder of "Ice Pilots" fame flew the airplane that dropped the recreated bomb. Great video.
I've also never seen "Ice Pilots". I honestly don't watch a lot of TV and after watching a couple episodes of "Flying Wild Alaska" and having to drink to suppress the urge to mail copies of my autopsy report release forms to the pilots featured therein, I'm hesitant to watch any more aviation based "reality" TV .
Unfortunately in science what you believe is irrelevant.
"I'm an old-fashioned Southern Gentleman. Which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-***** when I want to be."- Robert A. Heinlein.
Judy just googled it - It was called "Bombing Hitler's Dams", a NOVA presentation on PBS. Check out http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/militar...tler-dams/html. The science of it should interest you.
Oops. The direct link doesn't seem to work. Try www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova and click through to military and bombing-hitler-dams, or google it to get a direct link that might work better.
Yeah -- that works. Just takes a few more clicks to get there. Left side navigation - click on Military-espionage, then full episodes and it is about the 3rd or 4th choice. Enjoy
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Cheers,
Jerry
NC22375
65LA out of 07N Pennsylvania
Surely you couldn't leave out Airplane!
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Thanks Jerry. I owe you lunch at Oshkosh or something.
Unfortunately in science what you believe is irrelevant.
"I'm an old-fashioned Southern Gentleman. Which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-***** when I want to be."- Robert A. Heinlein.