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Back when I was recovering from my wreck, the boss had me do a Monday video conference from home on the week's shop workload (which I did not want to do).I have to say that I don't trust anyone using either "greetings" or "salutations" as an opening. Greg, of course, uses the former.
Hey everyone, how's it going?
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Bonuspoint to anyone who recognizes the rather meandering channel the greeting is from. It's not meant as a recommendation...
There were mornings when I wished to have an AI voice. And face.There are channels in which I wish the creator used an AI voice -- it would be better than his leaden diction.
I think you have a very lovable face. Wait, is that not your real face?!There were mornings when I wished to have an AI voice. And face.
I may have mentioned in another thread, way back, about an incident with Geography exams and a T-33. It seems that our Geography exams were in a luggage pod attached to the belly of the T-33 our instructor flew home for the weekend. Monday morning, we were told that all of us had passed our exams as they were lost somewhere west of the Rockies.As other have said, they were not dropped on peacetime missions except in emergencies.
I recall a friend saying in our home town said he observed a USAF T-33A dropping its tip tanks over a populated area.
I recall reading in a USAF safety magazine about a T-33A taking off from Mountain Home AFB, ID, just before a storm front hit. They were rolling down the runway when the gust front overtook them from behind, instantly causing a huge drop in airspeed. The only way to get off the ground before the runway ran out was to punch off the tip tanks.
And I recall a former military pilot admitting that he left two drop tanks in a golf course.
And that is all the cases I have ever heard about, despite 25 years on active duty in the USAF and a lifelong study of aviation.
Now, a friend of mine who was in a German POW camp in WW2 said that Allied pilots would on occasion drop their tanks into the POW compound. They probably were Polish pilots and were just trying to say hello, buck, up, we're here, etc. but of course everyone's reaction was to run like hell and duck for cover. He said there occasionally was enough fuel left in the tanks to fill a cigarette lighter and that the tank he saw was made out of paper.
Just to be clear--I watched the entire video and posted numerous comments before posting the video here. I had also discussed this topic with Greg and he apparently decided to ignore an extensive historical study that I pointed him to. He appears to obliquely dismiss it in the video.Hear me out.
I'd suggest that we don't do some mad scramble the moment Greg posts a video, even if the title contains the word like 'Bomber mafia' and similar. I know that finding mistakes in his videos is cool here, but still.
This may be true, but it is also irrelevant.Anyone got a month by month (or even week by week) comparison of USAAF claims in North Africa and Western Europe?
I wonder at what point the rate of ETO claims takes over that of MTO claims.
Just to be clear--I watched the entire video and posted numerous comments before posting the video here. I had also discussed this topic with Greg and he apparently decided to ignore an extensive historical study that I pointed him to. He appears to obliquely dismiss it in the video.
Greg is absolutely right that there was a bomber mafia, and that it held unrealistic views. However, he ignores the views of the fighter advocates in the years leading up to the Second World War, leading him deep into nonsensical error. When the fighter guys don't think that it's possible to build an effective long-range escort, it's hard to argue against unescorted bombers.
Greg trips on the semantics of the word "bomber" smashes his head on the wall and falls out of the window into a pile of cow slurry. The "BOMBER MAFIA" were advocates of a strategic and tactical bomber force to project US power in times of war. It is impossible for anyone to argue that they werent correct, bearing in mind how the war in the far east ended and what happened after. To this day the USA has a massive bomb force, they just dont use aircraft anymore. It is a matter of historical fact that the USA was attacked at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, in April 1942 the Doolittle raid on Tokyo used BOMBERS taking off from a carrier at some risk simply to make a symbolic hit on Japans capital. If the USA had a fleet of B-29s in 1942, that is what would have been used. The BOMBER MAFIA were not in any way averse or opposed to using fighters, the issue was getting fighters with the rang to do it. Experiments with in flight refuelling and bombers actually carrying fighters were tried to that end. Gregs Bomber Mafia nonsense is just money making tripe, complete BS and he knows it, but he has years of experience keeping people clicking.Just to be clear--I watched the entire video and posted numerous comments before posting the video here. I had also discussed this topic with Greg and he apparently decided to ignore an extensive historical study that I pointed him to. He appears to obliquely dismiss it in the video.
Greg is absolutely right that there was a bomber mafia, and that it held unrealistic views. However, he ignores the views of the fighter advocates in the years leading up to the Second World War, leading him deep into nonsensical error. When the fighter guys don't think that it's possible to build an effective long-range escort, it's hard to argue against unescorted bombers.
There was a "battleship Mafia", it just didn't go to the extremes that that Greg claims the Bomber Mafia didI'm going to create a phrase:
"Battleship Mafia" because in the days leading up to WWII, the mindset was Battleships would decide naval engagements.
So anything other than Battleships were suppressed by the Battleship Mafia.