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14-04-17, 04:42 PM
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MOAB
With all the "excitement" in the media about the MOAB dropped in Afghanistan, it's interesting to recall that 72 years ago the RAF were dropping a fractionally larger bomb- the so-called Grand Slam - from Lancaster bombers as a matter of routine. Mike
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14-04-17, 05:33 PM
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Do these things have a use by date?
Maybe they had to drop it before it "went off". Rob
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14-04-17, 07:13 PM
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Preceded by the 'Tallboy' of 12,000lbs - I was for many years a Police Officer stationed on the western side of the New Forest part of which had been used as a bombing range during WW2. An office in our Police Station was used by Barnes-Wallis as part of the development of these weapons. Seems the first live 'Grand Slam' was dropped 13th March 1945 from 16,000 feet. There had been inert devices dropped into the range prior to this date. I can recall a visit from an RE Officer and a few sappers visiting our 'nick stating that they had been instructed to investigate four large craters still out there on what had been the WW2 bombing range with a view to excavating these. We couldn't offer much in the way of advice just a copy of an OS map - but we did share a few mugs of tea with them. We were never appraised of any progress!
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14-04-17, 08:29 PM
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Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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14-04-17, 10:21 PM
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Jo
If you have an egg laying contest tomorrow I'm sure we will be there and lay more eggs than anyone else. My first thought was of the Grand Slam, just more accurate. Don
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14-04-17, 10:26 PM
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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