Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote in
news:0egd0b5ddfqm83euqj1auh1u3h7ddif5np@4ax.com:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:59:42 -0500, Andrew Chaplin
> <ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com> wrote:
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>>"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in
>>news:l5fc0bdbas6slu2b83bf9qq20e58gmajke@4ax.com:
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>>>
>>> Looks almost Buck Rogers-ish...
>>
>>More "Thunderbirds" (as in the puppet show, not the USAF) to me.
>
> I think you are both right, but it reminds me more of a Howell torpedo
> with wings and wheels.
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While on this subject, it makes me wonder about the cockpit
windscreens... those smallish rectangular styles that stayed
with the Brits way too long.
What gets me to wondering is that the very old joke/story about
testing windscreens. Firing an air-cannon - dead turkey as ammo
versus firing a frozen turkey. The Brits always try to dump that
on the U.S. But these little pilot peepholes really make me think
it was the Brits that pulled that boner.
Anyone want to nail that story down? Urban legend?
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