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Started by _AH_DarkWolf, July 09, 2007, 03:59:05 AM

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_AH_Boosher

The Phantom is available for a DBW 1.71 build at SAS.

_AH_Boosher

As is this little baby, the SA-2 (The Nike missile is available as well):




_AH_Autorotate

Nobody knows what it was, but they tried like hell to kill it.

This photo appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers this month in 1942 after West Coast anti-aircraft batteries opened up on a mysterious aerial object supposedly seen hovering in the skies above L.A. The object was sighted in the early morning of February 25 and fired upon for about two hours. The next day Army spokesmen said the barrage had been the result of a false alarm caused by war hysteria, which leaves you to wonder what sort of non-existent object could be pinned by multiple searchlights as it moved across the sky.

Another official explanation was that the object was a weather balloon, which of course raises a completely different question, namely, how did more than 2,000 exploding artillery shells fail to bring down something so flimsy? These shells caused three deaths on the ground, and they weren't even aimed there. UFO aficionados, of course, say it was an alien craft. That's debatable, not for any scientific reason, but based on simple logic. Consider: we puny humans have already made major advances in stealth tech, yet we think we'd be able to detect an alien craft that came from the gulfs of space to observe us? That's called pure hubris, and we don't subscribe.

So that leaves one other explanation. It was a deliberate Army drill involving a weather balloon, an exercise designed to test anti-aircraft capabilities, shock Los Angeles residents and thus gauge the potential for mass panic, and ram home the idea to the masses that the Japanese were lurking out there somewhere. In order to believe this scenario one has to assume the anti-aircraft gunners had the worst aim in the history hurled projectiles, however the three obvious benefits we've listed for conducting such a drill make this by far the most logical scenario. Of course in the end, we weren't there, so we're only speculating about this obscure historical event. Others have different theories, and some even have eyewitness accounts. If you're inclined, you can read one of those here.
http://www.rense.com/general27/battle.htm


_AH_DarkWolf

And we thought the friendly flak in 1946 was bad!

DW


"In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will" - Winston S. Churchill

_AH_Autorotate

the invincible horseman of fortress euro warmup room


he can hear EVERYTHING but cant see squat.



_AH_DarkWolf

A picture of our great parking from last night. Notably absent is Archie "Print Screen" Andrews.



Just like the bomber guys to cramp our style.



Last but not least the odd couple who felt the need to park at the other side of the field.



DW


"In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will" - Winston S. Churchill

_AH_Jack

Hey, where's Jack?   :idiot-0011:

_AH_DarkWolf



"In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will" - Winston S. Churchill

_AH_Bear

Hahaha.. now thats good!! :lol :lol

_AH_Col._Hogan


_AH_Archie

That crazy clown will be missed


Watch your 6, Own your 12, Hug an 11, Kiss a 29.

_AH_Jack

I'm not dead!   In fact, I'm feeling better!

_AH_Autorotate

Quote from: _AH_Jack on March 08, 2012, 02:54:43 PM
I'm not dead!   In fact, I'm feeling better!

no you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.


_AH_Autorotate

www.7thfighter.com/albums/index.php   :drinking-43: :drinking-43:

check out these guys photos, they have a few albums about iwo jima with some really neat stuff.

from having fun, air planes and airplane crashes... to banzai attacks where they got right into the GI's tents.





_AH_z5o

Good flyen weather








all these were taken with a cellphone, sorry thier not the best
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.