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Just imagine the fun you could have with german aircrew if it it was filled with helium
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Might have been filled with hydrogen! The pic was taken at Cardington, the home of British lighter-than-air, where the airship R.101 was built. Barrage balloons and lots of those decoy inflatables were built at Cardington during the war.

An he better not pull up to sharply either!
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I've seen pictures of Great War torpedo planes dropping their torpedoes so low, like this one, that the splash from the torpedo is covering the entire aircraft. The aeroplane ended up in the drink.
 
I have never seen these pictures until today. Amazing sequence.

US B-25D bomber being destroyed by the blast of a bomb of a preceding friendly bomber, Hansa Bay, Australian New Guinea, 28 Aug 1943





 
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