Look, I watched an unfortunate thing on Nova. These clowns got a DC-7, a Lake in Canada, bunch of cast cement barriers and a welding touch. These nuts are all in their sixties. At night they'd get plastered on beer and sing the Dam Busters March. "Dah-dah the dah daddy dah..."
Your right Bunky. They're about to re-enact Guy Gibson's famous feat. The more or less build a leaky dam at one end of the lake and try mightily to drop a bomb. on it. Course the first thing was to get the bomb spinning. Once they got that solved they realized that the bomb has to be balanced. Then they noticed that the splash from the bomb almost hit the tail. Altitude was a best guess on the part of the pilot. This comedy of errors goes on with daily nightly singing. They even start to harmonize. Even the rest of the bar joins in, with toasts to Barnes Wallis and a tip of the hat to Micheal Redgrave.
They even got a 90 year old survivor of the raid. He was quite out of it and couldn't understand why these Canadian blokes were bothering him.
"You say I did what?"
Suffice to say even when they happen to get an unbalanced bomb, flying at fifty feet instead of the recommended eighty. the pilot drops it too late and scored a perfect hit on the dam. Just as well they did. I begun to hate the Dam Busters March.
Not recommended for children. - Or adults for that matter.
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