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Space Forum / Space History / July 2004[FWD] Bock's Car Pilot Sweeney dies
...Ironically, I was watching both "The Atomic Cafe" and Kuran's digital remastering of the nuke films this evening when this came across: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/07/17/obit.sweeney.ap/index.html OM  Signature"No bastard ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb bastard die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr I saw Bock's Car, at Wright-Pat, about five or six years ago. The way I remember it, it was hidden 'way back in an unlit corner. I saw Enola Gay only three weeks ago, at the new facility next to Dulles. She's right in the middle of the hangar but is so surrounded by smaller craft, in all three dimensions, that she can literally be said to be hidden in plain sight. Given the size of the building and the current lack of exhibits (I'd guess the hangar is only about 25% occupied . the crowding seems rather obvious. By contrast, the SR71 is given pride of place: a central location with nothing obscuring the view. Neither bomber can be said to be prominently displayed. Maybe it's for security, maybe just to avoid more controversy. There's probably a reason, but still... -------------- Beady's Corollary to Occam's Razor: "The likeliest explanation of any phenomenon is almost always the most boring one imaginable." >Neither bomber can be said to be prominently displayed. Maybe it's >for security, maybe just to avoid more controversy. There's probably >a reason, but still... ...If this were NASA, I'd be smelling another PAO rat on this one. Since the Enola Gay flap between the truth and that bullshit pile of revisionist crap the Smithsonian's head honchos tried to foist on the public for the 50th, it's been obvious that there's a lot of liberals still running the joint who're still pissed about having lost that particular Political "Correctness" war, and are trying to win whatever moral "victory" points they can. Sack the entire lot except for those doing the actual restoration work, I say. OM Signature"No bastard ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb bastard die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr I'd always wondered whether Bock's Car had been saved! Now I know, and I'm glad to hear it. Dropping those two bombs was the best thing that ever happened to the Japs. On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:10:05 -0500, OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote: >>Neither bomber can be said to be prominently displayed. Maybe it's >>for security, maybe just to avoid more controversy. There's probably [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > OM > >Neither bomber can be said to be prominently displayed. Maybe it's > >for security, maybe just to avoid more controversy. There's probably [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > OM Bock's Car has been at Dayton since the early 1960's I believe. from what I can tell there has bnever been any controversy over its display. The placaqrds surrounding the a/c basically say " here is the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki". The visitor can make what they want out of it. There is no force fed propoganda(right or left wing) surrounding the a/c. For the life of me I cannot fathom why the NASM cannot follow the USAF's lead. After all, Nazi German A/C aircraft are protrayed at NASM with propoganda. I seem to remember a ME-262 on display at the NASM without any placards that read " this aircraft was built by a regime that exterminated millions of innocent people". Rant mode off, Gene DiGennaro Baltimore, Md. > Since the Enola Gay flap between the truth and that bullshit pile of > revisionist crap the Smithsonian's head honchos tried to foist on the > public for the 50th, it's been obvious that there's a lot of liberals > still running the joint who're still pissed about having lost that > particular Political "Correctness" war, and are trying to win whatever > moral "victory" points they can. "Hell, yes, under the same circumstances, I'd do it again."- Paul Tibbets, signing autographs at the National Atomic Museum. >"Hell, yes, under the same circumstances, I'd do it again."- Paul Tibbets, >signing autographs at the National Atomic Museum. ...This deserves to be a standard .sig to be used over on soc.culture.japan :-) OM Signature"No bastard ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb bastard die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr > >"Hell, yes, under the same circumstances, I'd do it again."- Paul Tibbets, > >signing autographs at the National Atomic Museum. > > ...This deserves to be a standard .sig to be used over on > soc.culture.japan :-) He's deaf as a post, but he'd heard the question often enough to be able to read lips. I savor the irony of four Japanese tourists standing in line to get books autographed :) |
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