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Aerocide?

Several airways intersect near Richmond, VA. Sometimes you see up to 10 contrails at once. It was weird when all that stopped.

Some people have claimed that in-flight refueling could have provided the range needed from the Marianas. Maybe, but in 1945 in-flight...

Still does. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-media/NASM-SI-2005-6309

I am not arguing against the cost of the atomic bombs. They were by far the best way to end the war. I am just disputing the notion...

So $2 billion divided by 3. Average of $667 million per bomb.

Paul W. Tibbets found when he tested a B-29 without turrets that there was a considerable increase in performance in top speed...

Richard B. Frank in his book Downfall - The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire says this, Appendix B, p. 363: " The material price to...

The aircraft was designed to be pressurized, and have remote-controlled retractable gun turrets with fourteen .50 in (12.7 mm) machine...

Trinity bomb was produced by the Manhattan Project as part of the war effort. So I count 3 atom bombs produced by the Manhattan Project...

Detailed information about the jet streams did not come until aircraft started operating at those altitudes and in enough quantities of...

Not a good comparison. Almost 4,000 B-29 aircraft were built at an average cost of about $750,000 each. Enough for several air forces...

Shokaku was hit by three bombs from SBDs. Zuikaku was undamaged but its air squadrons were heavily depleted, and that credit goes to...

The destruction of all four IJN fleet aircraft carriers at Midway was a far greater feat.

Nobody really knew just how devastating the SBD would be until they destroyed 4 IJN fleet aircraft carriers at Midway in June 1942.