There was an interesting documentary on tv some years ago where they took you inside a chemical disposal centre in the UK which was primarily setup to dispose of WW1 shells including gas.
The bombs were xrayed to determine their load then chopped open in a sealed environment using a saw and the gas or explosive removed before being rendered safe.
What was interesting was the WW1 Detectives series on tv (the one with the Canadian dudes) seemed to imply that gas bombs found in France are buried and then just blown up.
I wonder if the UK site was also looking for biological weapons?
So would this have been aerial dropped WW2 ordinance. Presumably a stock pile kept in case Germany dropped it on us and was never used.
Or would this have been some form of Home Defence measure?
I’m guessing unlikely to be WW1.
You don’t need guns to fight Zombies just maggots.
If you want to control gun crime in the US just outlaw the production and sale of ammunition, powder and ammo related products.
Eventually all the nutters will run out of bullets.
Interesting watching the British Pilot at the end.
Looks very jovial but still with an air of tension. They were trying to kill him after all.
Any speculation on how the pilot was downed?
Wonder if he was shot down from a frontal attack?
There was a great episode of Mythbusters where they were trying to see if it was possible to make a lead balloon fly.
As they cut to the adverts the commentator says “come right back to see if our lead ballon flys or is a total failure”.
Then they showed the advert titles which showed a lead balloon sereenly floating through the air!
Is the An2 concidered suitable for aerobatics? Most displays I’ve seen with the type have been slow, sedate and to demonstrate it’s STOL capabilities.
Just wondered if it’s been used for full on aero’s before?
Is this period of aviation history, the buying and selling of warbirds in volume and as a business, now over?
You don’t really hear of such people anymore.
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