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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Bunker Busting
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.044425.6954@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:44:25 GMT
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

In article <1991Feb4.063830.20490@cbnews.att.com>, thos@softway.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen) writes:
> That would require a major redesign on the casing. Probably wouldn't take
> long, and besides, the original worked so well that you could just dust
> down the designs (for a short term solution, at least. The designers
> name was Barnes Wallis, his portfolio included geodetic framework as applied
> to aircraft, culminating in the Wellington, design of the R101 (or was
> it the R100?), various work on SST-type aircraft, etc.

Wallis worked on the R100 (the "Capitalist Ship"), while the Air Ministry
did the R-101 (the "Socialist Ship").  The latter crshed on its maiden voyage,
for various horrifying reasons, losing 48 of 54 crew.  The R-100 was shortly
after dismantled.

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