Hauksbee

Good point. I notice that the pilot has a helmet, but the gunner does not. The pilot also seems to be wearing a heavy flying coat, while the gunner does not. It's going to be a long, cold mission.

Ran across this mis-filed in a folder and without a caption. Can somebody identify it?

At some time, this must have seemed like a good idea that would rule the skies...tho' I'd not want to be the stand-up gunner.

Just sneaking in a last footnote: I see there is now a Russian cottage industry in searching out meteor fragments, which sell at 40x the price of gold.

That build-up of (bogus) forces in East Anglia was the classical "Quaker Canon"...a weapon that does the trick and hurts nobody. It convinced the Germans that there would be a channel crossing at the narrowest point, the Pas-de-Calais. They held their Panzer units there long after it was clear that Normandy was the invasion point. It was also 'leaked' that Gen.George Patton would command the invasion. The general's detractors would later claim it was his most brilliant victory.

And very good dummies they were. This would have been an easy place to skimp, but the reality of those planes and tanks lent an extra dollop of reality to the rest.

Ah, you lads bring up old memories. (and from not so long ago.) I recall working for a graphics shop in San Francisco in the late '90's. One morning, I was asked to catalog a file drawer full of software discs. Among them all, I found the first release of Photoshop. It fit on three100Mb floppi disks.

Sunday morning, 9:39am. Started softly last night. Looks to be about 3' so far.

Interesting, yes...but a little of that fish-eye helmet cam goes a long way.

If only. Burning to a CD or DVD does not confer immortality to your files. I've had numerous ocassions where suddenly the disc drive will not be able to recognize half the files, or all, or keeping asking you to put a disc in the tray. Heart-rending tales could be told. I use a 300 Gb external harddrive with a little utility that automatically backs up the internal once a week.

...and we need all we can get.

Should have known!

Bomb release?

A few months back when there was discussion about Boelcke's war diary, I bought a copy on amazon.com. When it arrived, there was a second book, same binding, same publisher...free. The title was something like "Bombing With The Bedouins", or something like. About the same size as Boelcke's book, this was by an American flying with a Handley-Page unit on the Westrn Front. (called 'The Bedouins' because they were constantly being switched from one airfield to another) He talked a lot about these listening devices. Clunky as they look, a series of them could get a pretty good fix on a formation overhead. The author described a typical mission when they fly a straight line to the target, bombing in late afternoon and returning home in darkness. On the homeward route, they'd fly a dog-leg, using some lit-up city as their navigation point. He said the flak was very good. Even on full moon nights when they were above a heavy cloud cover over the city, the shooting was as good as on clear nights. I recall he talks of planes getting shot up, but not of great casualties. Dangerous flak, not murderous, but Sphinctor Condition 8 until you're out of it.

That sounds like a very dicey move that would want to become a spin...if he were flying a similar rotary engined plane. If he were flying an in-line, it might be a good tactic to suck the Camel into a spin.

Amen. From most any angle, it had the look of something that wasn't going to work.

Thanks, ataribaby.'Floh', is it? (Flea) Looks like one. Probably would have flown like one, had the prototype not crashed. Thanks for the link.

I'm coming up with a blank on this one. I vaguely recall Lloyd designing similar planes. There was a theory at the time that if the depth of the fuselage took up the whole space between the wings, there was an advantage in speed, or handling, or...? In any case it was a design fad that soon disappeared.

Boelcke being helped into (or out of...) his coat.

OK. Now we know the Devs are alive and working!

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had Europe's most successful, and fertile, marriage. They had a total of nine children, and after these were all married off, just about every royal in Europe was related to every other. (It was Victoria who passed on the latent gene for hemophilia.) Wilhelm and Nicholas corresponded at great length, (Dear Willy/Dear Nicky) in the only language they shared: English.

Yes. Variously reported as either 240hp, or 250hp, but in the end, not enough hp to get it out of soft dirt. I wonder how German Maybachs ended up in an experimental Russian tank? I realize that governments at war manage to deal under-the-table with each other, but still...?

Olham: the German Wiki claims a 150mm gun. That a six-inch bore. That seems awfully big. And the pictures in some of the other (English) links seem to have multiple machine guns in the center turret. (Hauptbewaffnung 1 × 150-mm-Bordkanone) Do you think the cannons in the sponsons (A) are big enough to be 6" guns?

Has anyone discovered what kind of armament this thing carried?

I*'ve heard it, or similar, used in some English films, and others set in Ireland, where somebody called out to get anothers attention. I'm assuming this is the same?