Ricardo Reis Very cool! :) Heath Counter-o s sound like an off-brand breakfast cereal. jbentham Wow! First congrats on handing in yr thesis. 2nd, surely wordclouds should suffice. They look so cool. Australia Felix · · Word cloud [...] Holman at Airminded has introduced a brilliant way of summarising a thesis. Here is mine so [...] George Shaner "Counter-o s sound like an off-brand breakfast cereal." Or some sort of neo-Sixties girl group. Meliss...
...m very pleased others can get their hands on it for a much more attractive price.) Hope 2017 is a happier year for you. Alan Allport Pleased to hear this. Publishers asking for 100 quid for a monograph are just taking the p*ss, in my opinion. Thirty-five pounds is not exactly cheap for a paperback, but it's not outrageous either. Brett Holman Kristen: Thanks! I hope it was worth what you paid for it, at any rate... Alan: Yeah, I assume they know t...
...t 'CONSIDERABLY more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers -- probably 1,250 aircraft' -- were involved, which is one of highest estimates I've seen after the Daily Mirror's 'MORE THAN 1,500' (of course, the true number was little over a thousand). In tactical terms, 'The plan for saturating the defences of Cologne was an undoubted success': 'We had the guns absolutely foxed,' a pilot said. Hundreds of others had the same report to make. Nightfighters were se...
...The motion nearly always fails, but then that's not the point. Noel-Baker -- a former professor of international relations and a keen internationalist -- had two related topics to discuss on this day. The first was the increasingly 'systematic and merciless bombardment of the civil population from the air' in Abyssinia, China and Spain: The Mayor of Canton the other day sent a telegram to the mayors of all the great towns of Europe and America gi...
...in the US at that point, but it seems like they're conflating the Japanese -- fifty-five million of them or so -- with the Chinese -- who are at about 600 million at that point, I think. It's true that Japan had a reputation as a place with a surplus population, and the US had closed the door on migration from Japan in 1924. But the reputation of the Japanese military up to that point was ruthless efficiency, not suicidal desparation. It's an odd...
...the bomber. Contents: Introduction; Part I Threats: Constructing the knock-out blow, 1908-1931;The bomber ascendant, 1932-1941. Part II Responses: Living with the bomber: adaptation; The only defence is in offence: resistance; Wings over the world: negotiation. Part III Crises: Defence panics and air panics; The German air menace: 1913, 1922 and 1935; Barcelona, Canton and London: 1938; The Battles of London: 1917 and 1940; Conclusion; Bibliograp...
...impact it will have on the viewer. And the ground is very clear, isn't it -- so shouldn't the Heinkel be more out of focus? Maybe, but that would depend on its height as well as that of the aircraft taking the picture, as well as the details of the camera used. The shadows might be another clue. The photo was supposedly taken in the evening (1848 hours, German time, to be precise), so the shadows should be long and away from the Sun in the west (...
...uld use some advice myself. How should this letter be understood (3)? SIR, -- I understood we were going to meet force with force. What is murdering women and children but force? -- E. James, Colchester. The way I read this is that the Germans are murdering British women and children; therefore Britain should respond in kind and start murdering German women and children. In almost so many words. If this is what James means, then it's the bluntest...
...formed from reading The Broken Trident and Armaments and the Non-combatant -- inventive, tenacious, blunt -- though of course adding a number of details I was unaware of. But what you say also raises some further questions! You say he was 'far from being a retired naval architect'. Do you mean he wasn't retired, wasn't a naval architect, or that he was more than the sum of those descriptions? I don't have a good account of his career, but he signe...
...f Hinds (8 in 1937, another 20 ordered in 1939). Although Omissi's subject -- air control, the use of airpower in Imperial policing, or in other words, the British air menace -- is ostensibly quite some distance from strategic bombing, I found that reading his book illuminated aspects of my own work (and sadly, this means I've broken my New Year's resolution already). Partly this is because he has chosen less jarring terms than I have ('mitigation...
