BRITAIN IS SEEKING WAR PLANES HERE (Real Time + 70 Years)

Microfiche-New York Times archives | 4/14/38 | No byline

[Petronski]

There is an error in your title. This story is Real Time - 70 Years.

"Real Time +70 Years" would be 2078. There is only one "real time." Now.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The "battle of the beams" during the British/German bombing campaigns used somewhat similar principles to get bombers to roughly the right areas.

I wouldn't want to be on an aircraft that is being remotely landed in "roughly the right area."

[MplsSteve]

I once read (and I can’t substantiate where I read it) that one of the major reasons Germany lost the war was because it did not build a long-range bomber.

[agere_contra]

Ah, I just remembered the absolute altimeter, which was radio-based and which was certainly available in 1938. It just timed the delay in ground-reflected waves to work out distance above ground.

THAT plus the cone thing would have helped a lot in blind landings.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

There is an error in your title. This story is Real Time - 70 Years.

I got the message the last time you posted it. It is still wrong. See my tagline.

[Petronski]

It is still wrong.

Yes. Next time do it right.

[mad_as_he$$]

This will bend your head. An F-15 Strike Eagle can carry more bomb load than a B-17.

[agere_contra]

I wouldn't want to be on an aircraft that is being remotely landed in "roughly the right area."

LOL, yes. My post 24 clears that up I hope.

Hmm, why ever am I thinking of the mysterious death of Ron Brown all of a sudden?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

the absolute altimeter, which was radio-based and which was certainly available in 1938. It just timed the delay in ground-reflected waves to work out distance above ground.

[Puts on glasses and rubs chin thoughtfully] Hmmm. Ground-reflected waves. It just might be crazy enough to work!

[agere_contra]

Dude, it IS 2078.

Summer Glau has been the dishy terminatrix-President of the United States ever since the world ended in 2015.

The only newspapers left in the world are the ones in Homer’s basement, hence these articles.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

An F-15 Strike Eagle can carry more bomb load than a B-17.

Faster, too, I'll bet.

Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode where some 1960's era soldiers are magically transported back to the Little Big Horn where they share Custer's fate. Their sergeant back in the twentieth century says something like, "Too bad they didn't take a tank with them."

[Petronski]

That explanation is more plausible than multiple 'real' times.

[MediaMole]

Back then, the NYT was against communists - as opposed to today.

Odd comment, considering the masterful job Walter Duranty did in covering up Stalin's atrocities.

[Minutemen]

I hope they get those planes in time!

[fella]

At about this same time my Dad got sent to the panhandle of Florida to build airfields to train those Brits to fly those planes.

[Vanders9]

I understand the main planes we ended up with, pre-war, were the B-24 Liberator (Good), the PBY Catalina (Very Good) and the Brewster Buffalo (Very Bad).

[Homer_J_Simpson]

At about this same time my Dad got sent to the panhandle of Florida to build airfields to train those Brits to fly those planes.

Any connection to this factoid found at http://www.pafw.com/nasp.htm?

In 1938, federal legislation authorized a 3,000 aircraft ceiling for Naval Aviation, which in turn brought additional growth to The Pensacola Naval Air Station. Auxiliary airfields were added in and around Pensacola.

[Oztrich Boy]

Here is a question for the military experts among us. Did any nation have heavy bombers capable of an England-Berlin round trip? In production quantities, that is.

Great Britain for one.

• Armstrong Whitworth Whitley 80 MkI/II ordered August 1935 - IOC March 1937
• Handley Page Hampton (a medium, but could reach Berlin) 180 MkI ordered August 1936, IOC September 1938
• Vickers Wellington, 180 MkI ordered August 1936, IOC October 1938

[Oztrich Boy]

Hah! I just knew Tin Miss was working on some scheme of her own

[mad_as_he$$]

Good episode of TZ. The advancements in aircraft in the past 70 years are truly amazing - tanks too!!