Re: OT: "Warplane" Documentary Starts This Week on PBS



Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if this story was fed to an number of troops in case they got captured and could "tell the story".



I'll see if I can dig up a specific cite to this story; It's been decades since I read it; but at the time I was thinking :
"Hot damn....go get them, guy!" :-D
I can't get this for you tonight, but tomorrow I hope to post a word-by-word account of how civilian input to the British Weapons Research Board was handled in Victorian times.
It made revolutionary use of a wastebasket, and was 99% effective and correct, besides being 100% streamlined.

Pat
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