Reply #1021 on: September 01, 2020, 05:22:53 PM
Thinking about this brings up an old memory.
At the test range in Roosevelt Roads, PR, they had a huge wall display of the range. It was so retro looking that it was called the Buck Rogers screen.
Ships and planes would go on the range and be "attacked" by Firebee drones.
These drones we're controlled by an operator in booths along the back wall.
One time an F4 Phantom from the Ark Royal was to attack a drone that was simulating an attack on the carrier.
The Phantom pilot made a very shallow turn to get behind the drone.
Well those things had no human body on board and could turn on a dime.
All we could see on the display was the turns. They circled and circled with no real indication of telative positions.
Then the Brit exclaimed, "the bloody blokes behind me!"
Someone flipped on the lights and the range team gave the operator applause.
He just grinned.
"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell." - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side." Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.