Just watched the BBC documentary the other night. (Which was balanced by the way and very good, if you’ll pardon the expression). Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also military targets.
From another discussion (PPRUNE?) I was referred to “EyeWitness to History.com”: “The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945”.Robert Guillain was a French reporter assigned to Japan in 1938. He stayed on after war broke in Europe and was trapped in the country after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. He returned to France in 1946 and published a book recounting his experiences. He was in Tokyo on the night of March 9, 1945 when the wet winter weather made a surprise change to mild temperatures and gusty winds. We join his story as the sound of air-raid sirens pierce the night and the first B-29s make their appearance. (Read for yourself, not for the fainthearted!).

It took a whole night but the result was the same as an atomic bomb! (Lots of civilian victims. 80.000 – 200.000 estimated killed)

Somehow the Japanese got “whitewashed” by the two bombs. All that went before is “forgotten”.
(Required reading for a start:
The Knights of Bushido
A Short History of Japanese War Crimes
by Lord Russell of Liverpool
Introduction by Norman Stone

http://www.militaryink.com/books/2005/june/1853676519.htm)

Why didn’t Japan surrender after the first bomb?

Recently heard that WWI was the first war, where the majority of casualties were civilian? (Could somebody provide a confirmation or link, please?)

Ejection seat as office chair. Maybe the management is telling me something?

Wing tip table. DC-3 pilots, don’t skip your “walk around”. 😀

The asking prices? 😮

Not saying they’re fake, but I find the sideview pics very dodgy, having no motion blur on the background. Some of the others look quit genuine, although the high-res images aren’t too convincing (weird noise – looks edited). If they’re fakes, they’re pretty clever ones, as the lighting and shadows are very accurate 🙂

With all the light in this environment I’m not surprised there is no motion blur (high shutter speed). Anyway, see the very first post/link of this thread. I don’t think the Toyota was photoshopped 😉

Insurance purposes, I’ve heard. NATO is not a juridical “part”, (if that’s the word :confused: )

nooo, … also the “steath” word have become in a fashion, and that sells

now isnt a problem for me if you want to believe in such books, i already show you some contradictions about how stealth is the f12-sr71 or the a12, now if you dont want to believe my arguments, isnt my problem, but i have always read in this forum some arguments that arent real, and again are based in these books, but i respect all the opinions

I show you …

Like Hexx you have. You have said so. A fair number of people has said “No, it is not so”, and backed their claims with reliable sources. Some of your remarks indicate a – shall we say “juvenile” – and really badmannered type of behaviour. SOC, I respect you, wonder about your patience and marvel at the facts we’ve gained from you.
Maybe the little troll has a purpose after all. Help me moderators. I’ve run out of sarcasm.
Best regards

After phasing out the Phoenix from service we got to learn that the performance of AIM-54s was rather disappointing, especially against fighter-sized targets. .

Iran apparently could make their AIM-54’s work on Iraqi fighters. (Ref. ACIG)

Composition makes a great shot and you have it in stacks here 🙂

You could of course spend lots of wonga on equipment to get crisper, more focused and stabilised shots if you want.

Hey I just remembered who “Will” is from Atlantique. We had a chat on Sunday.

Simple question (may have overlooked it?): What was the equipment? 😉
Honestly interested – digital etc.
Best regards

So you are leaving us “overG-eared”? :confused: (You little SST. Super Sonic Troll :diablo: , Or should that be tri-sonic?)
CAP’ing at Mach3? That’s a new concept.

Firebar: Corrugations for heat stability – correct. Triangular wedges of RAM at the edges. I believe the people, who built the machine.

Back to vulnerability:
One Swedish Viggen in a zoom-climb had a near miss with an SR-71. How close I can’t find at the moment.

In the Crickmore book it is acknowledged that the MiG-25 – or more likely the MiG-31 – might get to a firing solution on the Blackbird.
I would expect the SR-71 to have the best ECM or other countermeasures available.
There could also be “little friends” at lower altitudes.

In the end the greatest danger to the Blackbird were financial.
Old joke:
“If God had meant man to fly, He would have given him more money”