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From: pspod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: The Dam Busters (was Re: Strategic targets in Iraq)
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.012040.16286@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 01:20:40 GMT
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From: pspod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov
In article <1990Sep11.024301.14007@cbnews.att.com>, paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (paj) writes...
> 
>The scientist was Barnes Wallis, previously responsible for the R101
                                                                 ^^^^
>airship (scrapped by the Govt. after the differently designed R100
                                                               ^^^^
>crashed) and the Wellington Bomber, famous for its "geodetic"
>latticework design which made it able to take extraordinary amounts of
>damage and still keep flying.

These designations should be reversed, i.e. Wallis designed the successful
R100 and the government designed the ill-fated R101.