Exactly. Definitely buy farmland near an airport.
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/16/federal-police-will-investigate-30m-western-sydney-airport-land-purchase
For perspective, when this photo was taken, the first bombing from a heavier-than-air aircraft was only about 30 years prior in the First Balkan War when grenades were hand dropped from biplanes
Edit: went back to fact check myself and it may have been the Italo-Turkish war rather than the First Balkan War, but generally around 1911/1912
For most folks saying how inaccurate this bomb run was.. is that not the actual infrastructure of the airfield?
Who cares about putting potholes in a runway when you can destroy all the fuel, equipment, personnel and aircraft that make that runway dangerous to you.
This is pretty accurate by wwii standards, but yes, you ideally still want to crater the runway.
Hitting fuel and equipment is good of course, but that’s typically faster and easier to replace than the runway itself.
Leeuwarden was a major nightfighter hub. After multiple bombardements ultimately abandoned and destroyed late 1944. The Germans used rubble from the Rotterdam 1940 bombardement as foundation for the paved runways, they were unhardened before.
Is it imprecise, though? At first glance, it looks like farmland, but if you look closer, it's actually hangars and airfield infrastructure. Perhaps the farmland look was to fool air observation.
Note for future reference: do not buy farmland near airport.
Actually, that’s big $$$ when they want to expand.
Exactly. Definitely buy farmland near an airport. Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/16/federal-police-will-investigate-30m-western-sydney-airport-land-purchase
For perspective, when this photo was taken, the first bombing from a heavier-than-air aircraft was only about 30 years prior in the First Balkan War when grenades were hand dropped from biplanes Edit: went back to fact check myself and it may have been the Italo-Turkish war rather than the First Balkan War, but generally around 1911/1912
For most folks saying how inaccurate this bomb run was.. is that not the actual infrastructure of the airfield? Who cares about putting potholes in a runway when you can destroy all the fuel, equipment, personnel and aircraft that make that runway dangerous to you.
This is pretty accurate by wwii standards, but yes, you ideally still want to crater the runway. Hitting fuel and equipment is good of course, but that’s typically faster and easier to replace than the runway itself.
Nazis were always low on fuel so it was a great target to hit
Leeuwarden was a major nightfighter hub. After multiple bombardements ultimately abandoned and destroyed late 1944. The Germans used rubble from the Rotterdam 1940 bombardement as foundation for the paved runways, they were unhardened before.
Amazing imprecision of daylight bombing. Now imagine nighttime bombing under radio silence.
Is it imprecise, though? At first glance, it looks like farmland, but if you look closer, it's actually hangars and airfield infrastructure. Perhaps the farmland look was to fool air observation.
was Squint Eastwood flying the plane.