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Originally Posted by Mush Martin
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Originally Posted by Platapus
hmmm crafty Brits using icebergs to shield merchants? Never heard that one before.
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No kidding among the many wonderful crackpot notions and plans
such as say the Bates eight barreled bottle thrower. There was indeed
a real scheme (not set into development) to make a massive floating
airbase of reinforced sea ice to float over the larger atlantic air gap at the
start of the war. Oooh I wish I could remember the name of this project
and this crackpot I am sure I have it in allied secret weapons from ballantines illustrated history.
(that other great product that bears the name.)
I shall have to have a look for it.
M
[edit] here you go
http://www.navynews.co.uk/articles/2...0002010301.asp |
If you have ever watched the
Sea Hunters, they did an episode on this and actually dove the site where it was built.
Ship of Ice
- To protect Allied convoys during WWII, eccentric scientist Geoffrey Pyke proposed a manmade island of ice as a floating airbase. Now, in the atmosphere of the Canadian Rockies, the Sea Hunters dive into the mountain lake to find the ice island's prototype.http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=30946
An interesting episode to say the least.
RDP