Hunting rifles blow up trains

[aristotle]

When I think about the state of technology available in 1942, it is stunning what engineers could do and could not do. By 1945, our scientists and engineers produced the atomic bomb... but just 3 years earlier, they weren't providing military aviators with sufficient heat for cold weather flight or high altitudes???

More likely, the aviation engineers were directed to build cheap, easy to assemble aircraft capable of being mass produced in great haste. I imagine improvements were introduced every 60 or 90 days as time, resources and ingenuity allowed. Undoubtedly, aircraft produced near the end of WW2 were far superior to those flown in early 1942.

Many innovations and leaps in technology can trace their origins to the exigencies of war; necessity being the mother of invention.

 

[mjmsprt40]

Lefties still believe a gun fired inside a plane can cause it to depressurize and/or bow a hole in it, causing passengers to be sucked out, a scenario that has happened precisely once--in a movie. Never in reality. These are the people who think a barrel shroud is "the shoulder thing that goes up," and these are the idiots who want to take guns away, and they actually have a vote to do so.

Right now it's terribly hard to get a gun near a plane. Getting one INSIDE the plane is next to impossible. Unless you're one of the handful of people authorized to be packing heat, like an air marshal for instance.