Moose,
I would never praise this type of weapon, and did not realize that
Stukas were kept in collections anywhere, especially in England. My
memory of them starts with the graphic photos in Life Magazine in the
1930s, when I was less than 10 yrs old.
As to the converted Ag airplanes, this process was apparently started by
a US Govt. project to destroy fields where narcotic crops were grown.
They were armored, and possibly armed, because the fields were
defended. The market widened and many of these machines ended up in the
Middle East, where, I agree, governments can be repressive.
Your view probably was the reason that the company testing the
airworthiness of the machines asked me not to take closeups. They
didn't want attention.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 12/10/2015 12:15 PM, Moose wrote:
On 12/9/2015 1:24 PM, Ken Norton, erstwhile List Mom, wrote:
...
What is cool about that whole concept, though, ... and you can just
start throwing
armor and munitions all over it.
On 12/10/2015 9:30 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
... I love the Stuka - it makes no pretense at being pretty. It's
aggressive and angular - a no-nonsense war machine.
With respect to those like two of our Crises*///
With respect to those, like two of our listees names Chris, who made a
career in the military arms of major governments, I find the idea of
expressing public appreciation, even love, of machines designed to
kill people, uh, troublesome, particularly when the emphasis isn't on
some other aspects of them as flying machines, but on their
effectiveness at killing.
I'm not sure it's proper for those who have been in actual combat,
taking fire from others and their killing machines, from guns on up,
to make such expressions, but I'm pretty darn sure it's not
appropriate conduct for those who haven't.
I'm not interested in opening a discussion about war in general, or
any discussion at all. I speak only about the glorification of
killing. How do you think the terrorists get to the point of killing?
No Glory Moose
* How the heck does one make a proper plural here?
AG
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