pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com (LAY ON GROUND. LIGHT FUZE. 13-Sep-1990 1856) (09/18/90)
From: "LAY ON GROUND. LIGHT FUZE. 13-Sep-1990 1856" <pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com> Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation In article <1990Aug17.023629.1178@cbnews.att.com>, jfb@ihlpm.att.com (Joseph F Baugher) writes, in part: .... >Evaluation of the surviving Sea Dart aircraft continued until 1957, when the >program was finally terminated. One YF2Y-1 aircraft is on display at the Naval >Air Test Center Museum at Patuxent River, Maryland. When I visited Patuxent River 3-4 years ago, there was no Sea Dart there. There was an gorgeous wooden scale model of one , built for wind tunnel testing, at a scale of 1 in 10, or thereabouts. There was (same time frame) a Sea Dart at Cherry Hill (?) NAS, the one near Philadelphia. It was on display, with several other a/c, including an Me262, near the east fence. The a/c were looking a little weathered. This was a while back, the a/c may have been moved... === correction/apology: I referred to the Me163 as Sturmvogel in a recent posting. I really do know better. Me 163==Komet. The German edition of Spate's book on the Me163 was called <topsecret> Vogel, so i had birds on the brain as I wrote the posting... ======== Numbers and Statistics: With NO intention of reopening the Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Dresden debate, Richard Rhodes, in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, gives casualties of roughly 200K at Hiroshima and 140k at Nagasaki, up to 1950. The death rate, in each case, was of the order of 54%, with the rate for typical firebomb/firestorm/incendiary raids given as 10%. dave pierson |the facts, as accurately as i can manage, Digital Equipment Corporation |the opinions, my own. 600 Nickerson Rd Marlboro, Mass 01752 pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com "He has read everything, and, to his credit, written nothing." A J Raffles