I’m no big fan of the Hornet’s looks but that’s the nicest looking one to date!

I’d have liked to see a Nimrod in Coastal Command colours but it’s a bit late for that 🙁

(A spinoff from the original J-xx topic.) AFAIK it’s the first time China is using their roundel without the horizontal bar. On the wings the normal roundel is still used. :confused:

Will this be a permanent change?

Anyone know what those big unshrouded engine exhausts do for it’s Radar CC and IR signature?

In the immortal words of Homer J Simpson… ‘Merry Everyone!’

Cheers

Seb

Long before my time but rings a bell somehow – must have glimpsed something about it before.

A very moving article I thought. From an era when the relatives were left to fend for themselves after such events (if the docu I watched on Discovery the other night is anything to go by).

Argueing about history is rather like shouting at the TV.:diablo:

Best comment so far 🙂 but I’ll give it a try…

Comparing Wallace to von Braun and British concentration camps to German mass extermination camps is like comparing oranges to space shuttles – designed to do different things even if the results are sometimes the same.

The Germans have undoubtedly set the pace in the two twentieth century global conflicts. In WWI, the first use of poison gas, first aerial bombing of civilians, Lusitania. They got a head start on WWII at Guernica and used that experience on Rotterdam, London, and all the rest. God knows how much worse it could have been if they’d had a successful strategic bomber design.

At least Harris was ‘sporting’ enough to warn them what to expect in return – before the large scale bombing started. I don’t think Harris and Bomber Command or even the war leaders have a case to answer. I’m sorry, Dresden was as legitimate as Warsaw – I’m not aware of it being a particular centre for anti-nazi resistance and right-minded Germans.

Now, here’s a notion (I’m playing devil’s advocate here so don’t take it that these are my beliefs) but what if the strategic bombing campaign was designed not to be too concerned about civilian casualties?

It worked didn’t it? They haven’t done it again…

The anti-war mindset of Gotterdammerung is so deeply entrenched in the German psyche that Western Europe has known peace for 65 years – unheard of in recorded history. A return to arms and jealous glances West and East seems unthinkable.

Same thing in Japan – from Pearl Harbour and Bataan to ground zero to peace-minded, robot & My Kitty obsessed chill-axers in a generation.

Thousands died so that millions were saved – is that justification enough?

Please feel free to discuss, shoot back or tear me a new one for going O/T!

underwhelming – like most modern schemes.