...and decided it was time to ditch Elemin for Tiny Forge. So, anyway, I've reinstalled WordPress and the old plugins (or switched to better, or least non-abandoned, plugins), installed, configured and styled Tiny Forge, restored the images and so on, and imported a backup of the database (which, luckily, appears to be okay). No data has been lost, though there are still a few things I need to fix and tweak. And Airminded is no longer cloaked, and sc...
...a HTML page. There's a handy cheat sheet here, and a useful collection of installation and usage links here. Frankly, LaTeX is hard to get the hang of, especially coming from the WYSIWYG world, and typing out the various commands is a bit tedious. But there are tools which make the process a lot easier (and this is the biggest improvement from my days as an astrophysics postgrad, when I used vi exclusively). I'm on OS X, and my favourite LaTeX ed...
...either Guernica or Coventry. As Steel notes, there were plenty of earlier instances; I would probably point the Bulgarian bombing of the Turkish city of Adrianople in late 1912 as the inauguration of aerial bombardment of civilians. I would also quibble with Steel, and point out that while Britain as a nation could defend itself against bombing during the First World War, on an individual level its citizens could not shoot back, send up fighters...
...ondon. Remarkably, Leigh-Mallory dismissed Park's concerns. He argued, for instance, that it didn't matter if the airfields were hit while the BW was forming up. He'd get the Luftwaffe after they had dropped their bombs (i.e. on Park's airfields). And Park had a point. For instance, he had asked for assistance from 12 Group on August 26th 1940. Debden airfield was unprotected and Park was relying on 12 Group fighters to provide cover. Debden was b...
...se we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land. We shall not, for instance, be able to get housing materials out of Germany for our own needs because some temporary provision would have to be made for the Germans themselves. The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. I am of the opinion that military objectives must henceforward be more strictly studied in our own interests rather than that o...
...t is a simple matter of pulling out a source, typing a few words and in an instant its available to the world. At least until someone decides to revert it for whatever reason ... Simon Harley *"a winner of the Victoria Cross", I ought to have written. Definite articles on the brain ... JDK I've been corrected by my military friends before now that such medals are 'awarded' not 'won'. Checking the background, I also learn that strictly speaking, bu...
...rive at the knockout blow's target by some hundreds of miles, did not, for instance. There was profound ignorance over the actual capability of most munitions, for instance, which is a (also inexcusable) technical testing failure, but range calculations are fundamental to safe flight by any airman (or woman) of the era. Regards, *Or in the case of air force or air ministry staff, should've. Brett Holman Fair point. It would be interesting to have...
...it in detail, and simply conformed your own prejudices. At least, in this instance, you have taken the time out to explain your prejudices, in a relatively courteous fashion. For that I thank you. Richard North Sorry ... I haven't closed the italics ... rushing into print! I still have my blog to write and it is late. I've put a closure code here . I do hate comments that can't be ediited. Brett Holman Firstly, for one who is punctilious to the p...
...ordered from Link by the RAF at the outbreak of the war, but very few were installed in the UK due to the high demands on station infrastructure and installation manpower this trainer made. Its impact on training in the UK was thus very small. Brett Holman Martin: Late comments are always welcome, especially when they are so informative! Interesting that the patent was filed in 1923, over a decade before the article discussed in the post. So bombi...
As I'd never been out west before, I allowed myself a couple of days after the Perth conference for sightseeing. First I travelled down to Fremantle, not far south of Perth. Fremantle is a port city on the Indian Ocean, which is why it has not one but two branches of the Western Australian Museum devoted to maritime history. The biggest and flashest is the Western Australian Museum — Maritime (let's just call it the Maritime Museum). Among its tr...
