Im not sure if you love tu-22 or Mari more naw tell us the story about the lost tu-22 movie and ho it was about to be movie star by the way your channel is the best English speaking channel about soviet/Russian aviation
I dont understand your channel, like you only have 192K subs. You deserve millions! The production quality, the time and effort that is put into your videos and the information are all absolutely top tier. Hope you and your loved ones are staying safe! Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava!! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (Also thanks for introducing Brilliant, its great for understanding calculus!)
Hi there, I love your videos, and I wanted to use the type of music you use from epidemic sounds in my videos. Would you mind sharing the playlist of the type of music you use?
There's a great joke, the punch line of which is "but you f*** one goat..." about how you can do all these various fantastic things in life - build magnificent houses, scale mountains, rescue people from burning buildings - but none of these matters, because if you "f*** one goat" you will forever be known as the "goat-f***er" - and not the house-builder, the mountain climber, the fire rescuer... Same thing here.
Hey. One thing to correct- at the beggining you say it is Danzig. That is partially correct. It original name is Gdansk. Danzig is german wordfor that city.
The entire sequence of events is so crazy that two fighters, who took off from the same airfield, chasing each other thinking they're enemies ended up being a footnote
@@squalosus223 I would still differentiate between Russia and the Soviet Union, while there were a lot of cases of gross negligence and stupidity during Soviet times, but they still operated a much more functioning military than Russia does today.
5:05 Dude is literally waving a too-large wrench around that nut, accomplishing no work at all while appearing to be very busy. Someone give this man a medal and promote him immediately!
...the fact that paper skies found that video was incredible....too funny - during the cold war, there were so many screw up on both sides that it's no wonder we all did not get blown to smithereens...
Paul Crickmore is recognized as the world authority on the SR-71. He is remembered for his observation that, "You've never been lost until you've been lost at mach 3 at 80,000 feet.
Kind of like our Astronaut who was on the Mir space station for a year(?) He said "you have never heard silence until you have been on a space station that is having a total power failure".
This crew was so lucky on each and every single phase of the event, that's truly funny, this story deserves to be a movie and the two airplanes taking off from the same airbase chasing each other would be the icing on the cake. 🤣 Incredible story! thanks a lot for sharing it.
I assume that the flight plan said that somewhere around that area they'd get locked up by radar and would have to evade interception of a fake missile. Which would make sense, but also when getting locked up by radar, the RWR will scream bloody hell at you to warn you're being locked. so my guess is the crew knew somewhere in that point they'd get locked, which they did, but for different reason, but they were none the wiser to these reasons, and just deployed CMS as expected.
I did too. That's the point when it turned into Mr. Magoo or the pink panther or even inspector clousseau obliviously avoiding all the attempts to thwart him by pure accident. The musical choice really punched up the comedy factor, too.
As a historian and content creator, your transition of this unit’s history into the memory of the unit… what they’re remembered for… is absolutely superb!
As an Iranian I must mentioned 3 points: 1- on 25 march 1983, about 14:30 (middle of the day) we have an small earthquake near Tehran, 5.4 magnitude, that killed 30 peoples, so the earthquake not related to this incident 2-last week of March is our national holiday for the new year (Nowruz) so the readiness were low 3- I heard many years ago that Tehran air defence system that consist first generation MIM-23 hawks tried to get a radar locked but it's jammed then the tu-22 turned to East toward Afghanistan (which in those days actually considered as Soviet land) so Iranian control do nothing and guessed it is a Soviet commercial/transport aircraft that got lost, the tu-22 never exceed mach 1 at all time and simply we not know it's a bomber with kh-22 on it.
@Aria Azari Thank you for the correction. While gathering all the information, at least 2 accounts indeed mentioned the "holiday" (not Nowruz but Ramadan) as a possible cause. General Alexander Tarakanov, the commander of the 46th Air Army, specifically mentioned it. However, all those accounts referred as a holiday to Ramadan and as ... ... hard to explain ... as if they wanted to throw in Ramadan not as an actual reason but as something that everybody would know about Islamic culture. On top of that according to my research, in 1983 Ramadan was in June. All in all, Ramadan didn't seem convincing, so I decided to exclude the holiday as a reason. Thank you again for the correction.
@@PaperSkiesAviation Please note that Ramadan and Nowruz are not the same holiday. Nowruz is the Iranian or Persian New Year celebrated by various ethnicities worldwide. It is a festival based on the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar, on the spring equinox-on or around 21 March on the Gregorian calendar.
Yes that hit me as well. Those were infamously difficult planes to fly by all accounts and he was apparently a brilliant pilot. His blind spot was trusting his navigator.
@PerilOS That's a far more detailed response than I deserve. I really hope that your job has improved, or you've found something better. Life is far too short for 12 hours of nonsense per day. Also the German spirit of efficiency and skill made me laugh because those are exactly the values I was raised on.
@PerilOS Oh man, I'm in the legal field, and I could apply that expression to the kind of work I do. "One draft, one sip". But hold on to that hope. It's all we've got sometimes.
@PerilOS Don't ever give up your ideas nor your dreams. I you feel like creating your own business, please go for it. It will be tough, but at least you should be able to create and maintain the environment you seek, where personal commitment is valued. (If I understood well) Just remember to not put all your hopes on anyone all at once, people are all different and some differences might disappoint you ;p Every person can shine if put in the right place, and encouraged to. (And I'm not talking only for you but for myself too. I find it hard to renounce the comfort of a part-time salary job where I bore out, but with which I have the time to work on half of my projects. The other half implying that I quit the damn part-time job. So... I need courage.)
The bomber deploying jammers right when they were being locked on by actual fighters is a priceless coincidence, if it was the captain who pressed the button it explains why he run out of luck.
You seem to have found my stash of stories! 😅 The funny thing is that controllers requesting takeoffs in the opposite direction was so common, that Tu-22 navigation computer had a special "correct course 180°" switch, that would mirror the route automatically. The only thing that Lt. Drozdetsky had to do is TO FLIP A SINGLE SWITCH!
@@TheMemeDynamics He worked on Tu-95. I don't know why he was in Baranavichy for some time. He said that drinking gets boring quickly. Nevertheless, every member of ground engineering personnel had a 10L canister of pure ethanol, "just in case".
This story is so comical that you couldn't make it up. A comedy of errors wonderfully narrated in a lovely sardonic and self-deprecating way. I love your videos and your narration and you are gifted story teller. Thank you.
Maybe he sucked at aerial navigation, but he was pretty good at political navigation. And I think we can all agree that it's an important skill to master
I was a kid during the Iran-Iraq war, so this story is really interesting for me-thank you! A couple of notes: I remember Iraqi bomb raids that started those years, and remember hearing once about red alarm going off in Mashhad with no air strike, which made a lot of people wonder 1) how could Iraqis reach that far and 2) why on earth they would target a holy city (which they themselves declared as sacred and off limit). Not sure if there is a connection between these stories. Also, the Iranian air defence those day was virtually nonexistent according to documentaries on the topic. They did have stronger presence with the F14s near the west, but an aircraft coming from the soviet airspace could easily fly through. Anyway, awesome video!
Of course the USSR would lie and punish the guy ordered out of the control tower by a general by accusing him of ordering the general out of the control tower. I just...wow. Everything about this incident is just mind-blowing, including the USSR's ability to take a miraculously happy ending to a potential catastrophe and make it tragic and needlessly cruel regardless.
That navigation system sounds INCREDIBLY convoluted. Changing 0 from real north to "our target = north" sounds like it'll just add a TON of room for error and confusion.
The fact that this story would barely make it as a B-movie plot, and yet happened in the CCCP is both amazing and appalling. What is truly excellent is your story telling and where you apply it :) Keep it up !!
If you want to know of the US version of this pilot, just google for "Wrong Way Corrigan". In the 1930s he started near New York City and was supposed to fly to the US west coast, and somehow ended up near Dublin, Ireland.
In WW2, there was an RAF bomber returning from a mission deep into Germany from England who set off east after dropping his bombs, and it was around 20 minutes before one of the gunners noticed that they were still heading east. They got back, eventually.
Man with the amount of coincidences of that flight it's amazing they didn't actually end up defecting. Also I do feel the pain of having to do dull math over and over again while learning how to take apart rifles.
There ia a long list of countries that would make sense to defect to as a Soviet pilot, but the post revolutionary Islamic republic of Iran, ruled by brutal mullahs, in the middle of a long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, is not at top of that list, lol.
I'm sure it exists everywhere in the world, not just in military... when your boss is somewhere near you, you will definitely pretend to do something important even if you don't 😃
Wow! This video is not only extremely well written and narrated, it was amazingly well animated to boot! Top notch work, and an entertaining, interesting story as well! Much impressed.
When I was in the US Army in the seventies, 'looking busy' was a required skill. Also during a Reforger exercise, my section of 2 M114s were doing a relocation movement. The E6 section leader wasn't the brightest guy in the platoon, but it was a simple maneuver so the TC of my track decided to get a nap, there is nearly the same floor space as the M113 and we ran with 2 or 3 man crews, and gave me a chance to run the track for a while. After going around some woods we turned left instead of right as briefed. I had my driver go off road to get along side of the other track to try and get their attention, we were on radio silence, but I could not get the attention of either the section leader or his driver, normally the company commander's jeep driver, to stop. Not knowing what else to do I fell in line behind him until we ran into an opposing tank battalion and got swatted while crossing an open field. Sat there for several hours waiting for the platoon Sgt to come pick us up. Since we were in such an open area a passing jet took the opportunity to use us for a bombing run. I never got any grief for this, everyone knew the section leader's capabilities, but it was quite a while before I had a chance to TC again.
@@baronvonslambert same in healthcare dude, boss gets mad if he sees me sit but doesnt see that ive been running forr hours nonstop working my ass off
@@baronvonslambert - Ah, yes. It was the constant threat of getting your own job done early, then being forced to do some other slacker's job for them just because you got yours done in good time. Gotta learn to be scarce or, at worst, look busy when discovered. Otherwise they'll start expecting you to always be done early and start shifting more work onto you. Which, in turn, could make you appear to be an underachiever after being appointed with more to do.
@@baronvonslambert I work in a warehouse too. I understand your predicament PERFECTLY. Have the same mentality from my bosses: they will rope me and some other poor bastard in my section into extra work if they catch me just standing still...
This reminds me of a story my grandfather told me. When he was learning to pilot the B-24 during WW2, he got a new navigator who had never flown in that particular plane before. In this plane, the navigator sat facing the tail instead of the nose like his previous ones. In their first training exercise, the navigator immediately sent them in the complete opposite direction they were supposed to, and their entire 12 ship formation got lost for a while. The navigator had no idea where they were and neither did the instructor, but fortunately grandpa knew the area well and was able to bring the everyone home using visual references.
A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent: "You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No." He continued "Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No." "Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No." "But ya fuck one goat.."
It is interesting how many small mistakes and co-incidences can compound together to become something major! Thank you for a fascinating story really well told!
"In the olden days, if an agent did something _that_ embarrassing, he'd have the good sense to defect. Christ, I miss the Cold War." -M, _Casino Royale_
THIS is the sort of content that keeps RU-vid viable: the narration is perfectly delivered, informative and entertaining. The visuals and graphics are *superb* and of course the improbable, incredible story... BRAVO Paper Skies! Subscribed.
The black & white animation and explanation of what happened is FANTASTIC! In 1968, I was flying a helicopter in South Vietnam in broad daylight. We got disorientated for about 15 minutes. When I saw two mountain peaks I recognized on my map, I realized we were about 2 miles inside Cambodia. I yelled to the crew.... We're The Fukarwi !
203rd heavy bomber regiment of the USSR: "We messed up by flying into the completely wrong direction" 7th Bomb Wing of the USAF: "Well at least you didn't accidentally dropped a nuke on yourself"
That’s the problem though. We learned about the American accidental nuke drops decades after it happened because the documents were declassified. However, according to the few declassified ussr documents that exist, no accidental nuke drops ever happened. Which is massively suspect. No way is that possible when you hear about the number and insanity of shenanigans that happened in the ussr’s air force, which somehow beats the ridiculousness of the us air force
@@SmackcrackIV To be fair air deployable nuclear weapons are a much much larger part of the US triad than the soviet one. We had a few incidents, but we flew probably 10x more than the soviets did, at least when it comes to nuclear arms.
If i only had a shred of the confidence of this guy... He thought he was not only so good at it, but that everyone else turning the other direction were wrong.
These stories, especially this one in particular, bring me hope that, as often as I make colossal mistakes, I am not creating international incidents when I do so. It could always be worse! The truth is stranger than fiction!
4:48 - I feel that. My schoolhouse barracks was so crowded with guys waiting for school, we could clean the entire building in an hour...which was bad because we had to clean it for 8. At first, I found a group who ""cleaned"" the laundry room every day and we established 30 minute duty rotations for cleaning the hallway window. If duty happened to notice someone important coming he'd very kindly remind all of us to "hey, don't forget to check the lint traps" because we-uh...we were so forgetful in cleaning out those lint traps 25 times a day. When they got us, we disbanded and I found a single spot at a convenient sitting height on a particular door that would never come off and scrubbed it for the whole day every day for weeks.
Pretty interesting to hear about what he thought about his time in elementary and high school as well. I'm not exactly sure how old he was when the soviet union fell though
It was a simulated attack during an exercise. So dudes on whatever barge they were "attacking" may not even notice they have been "sunk" (as ASM launches are usually conducted from stand-off distances)
Even in western countries it is always the same problem - Bosses do not care how hard you work, they only care about how hard you 'appear' to work. Because heaven forbid any boss take the time to understand what is actually going on beyond the passing glance.
It turns out that office workers actually do about two to three hours productive work in a day. Which is a major factor in the "back to the office" idea is when "working from home" is that most people will just do their work and not bother with about five hours of pretending to work. (Those who were spending the entire day pretending to work may have no idea how to pretend to work.)
@@markevans2294 Working from home would make it harder to pretend to work because bosses will be forced to find more tangible ways of figuring out how much work you are doing.... But that would require actually understanding the work that your staff are doing, and no boss wants to do that, so "back to the office" becomes very desirable.
Another fun one that could be done was that RN Sea Harrier which was on an exercise to find an "enemy" carrier under combat conditions. The pilot got lost on the way back and was running low on fuel so decided to land on a passing cargo ship!
No matter how powerful and scary a military is it will always be staffed with human beings doing human things. Deep down we are all the same, knuckleheads. Glad you're safe. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇺🇲 💛 💙 💛 💙
Along with this amazing story - that was one of the best seques into an ad for Brilliant I've ever heard. They should flip you a bonus for quality work!
With all the stories that I’ve been, I’d had the impression that the Tu-22 was immediately thrown into the garbage, paving way for the Tu-22M, but apparently not as it would seem.
@@MsZeeZed tu-22 and tu-22m are two different aircraft and no its not 55 m3 is 40 y/o and is a newly build air frame m3m is 3 y/o aircraft and is moded m3 the whole story of th 22m and how it comes to existence is very interesting and some of it is because of kruschev ICBMs love and I quote " ICBMs would render the bomber obsolete " why do you think that tu-22/22m are rocket carrier's
This entire story is a bit crazy. But when he mentioned the two soviet fighters chasing each other, i lost it completely and laid laughing underneath my desk for 2 minutes
I was like: "They probably got lost somewhere above Caspian Sea and wound up in Iran instead of Uzbekistan or something" Video: "(...) instead of Belarus" Me: "Soviet Russia wouldn't be the Soviet Russia if it was understandable error"
Hindsight is always 20/20 and harsh. As someone who grew up flying archaic nav systems and is now spoiled by GPS/INS systems flying heavy cargo all over the world I completely feel for this crew! The whole comedy of errors in this event is just uncanny though!
i mean, whoever drew up the mission plan did a stellar job if the actual mission was executed at the same time as the practice mission and went off flawlessly
It really is a feat of humankind to be so damned good at relatively efficient mediocrity, controlled negligence and other oxymorons I can't be bothered to come up with as the Soviet Armed Forces in general and the Soviet military aviation in particular. Great content!
As a child raised in the USSR in the 80s, I related so much to the build up to Brilliant (math classes and Soviet shenanigans at school). Made me laugh so much, thank you. Your channel is amazing - very rich in information delivered in a perfect mix of humor and attention to details. I enjoy your videos very much - thank you and keep it up!
I realize we all hate the need for an advertisement. But the segue from math for navigators to math & other courses was just so smooth & painless... Well done!😀
Quite funny indeed. And I have a story, too. Back in the mid '70s, I was stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY. Our company was doing a Survival, Escape and Evasion exercise. The group I was with got hot and tired (it was summer) and did not want to evade -- just go to towards the rally point and see if they make it. Chason and I got a map and a Lensatic compass from the team as we wanted to run the exercise realistically. Well, there was mostly forest with small patches of open terrain and the compass wasn't working, so we eventually navigated by map. We saw some hills to our right, and a graveyard to the left with a little dirt road running by it. We looked at the map and, yes! We knew where we were and headed out towards the rally point. After walking a LONG ways, I decided to put a stick in the ground and see what direction the shadow indicated. We had been walking 90 degrees off from what we should have been. Looking at the corner of the map, it showed a printing date of 1950 . . .Obviously we had seen some other graveyard and hills. After going in the correct direction, we got to the rally point. We were almost the last to arrive. True story.
This is amazing and one of my all time favorite videos you have shared. It's incredible; both the inventions of mankind, and mankind's tenancy to improperly use those inventions.
This is altogether one of the best RU-vid videos I’ve seen in a long time. Your content just gets better and better, and the combination of your presentation, editing, research, and the fact that you bring stories that the west would otherwise never hear makes me click immediately whenever I see a new video. I’ve got to hop on your patreon, because consuming this for free feels like a crime!
4:26 - My country has mandatory military service. The same phenomenon happens here: Every time a high ranking officer was scheduled to visit, we would pretend to be busy maintaining our equipment and vehicles. There was times where I applied oil to the same vehicle for over 20 minutes, a job that normally takes around 2 minutes, just to look busy. The best one was when the 3rd highest in command of the army visited us. We sat down to eat but were not allowed to start eating until he arrived, just so we would be busy eating when he saw us. However it seems like the guy knew the trick and was purposely for almost 1.5 hours. Seeing as the time was getting late, it would be suspicious if we were still eating, so we were allowed to eat and then went back to pretending to be busy with maintenance.
@@whitemouse2460 With military exercises, they often use things with just a veneer of plausibility. In the US's interwar Naval Problems, they regularly had various islands that were in US control stand in for things like the Japanese home islands and various other points of interest that were decidedly not under US control - often islands that are very different from the islands in question, but the whole idea was to practice naval warfare in archipelagos so you know what effect they have on strategy and tactics. So here, it's a carrier group in water...that's all it really needs to be. And it's in a body of water that is mostly controlled by the Soviet Union and is landlocked, so it definitely doesn't have an actual American carrier group in it sneaking around where they can be extremely alarmed by the arrival of a squadron of heavy bombers and overreact. The implausibility of that specific location is actually a plus. Do that training mission in the Pacific and the flight might actually find one of the several US carrier groups that are poking around and then at best we have the enemy observing the quality of a squadron on a training exercise, which is free intel. At worst, they overreact, shoot the heavy bombers down, and launch a counterattack and then the Soviets drop a tactical nuke on the carrier group in response to that counterattack and then everyone launches their ICBMs. So yeah...let's not risk that option and just pretend there can be a carrier group in the Caspian Sea.
This video is so good I’m currently watching it for the second time a couple of months after first viewing. You do such a great job of making the telling of this story really engaging and entertaining. Love you work.
This is the most amazing series of minor screw ups and huge coincidences! Really fun story thanks for bringing it to us. Also, great segue into the ad.
Although I found myself chuckling a few times at the sheer number of coincidences in this flight, I feel bad for the Captain being so stressed after the never ending investigations and accusations led to his heart attack that prematurely claimed his life. Never ending investigations can't do someone's mental health any good
I cannot imagine how humiliating this had to have been. Dad was a B-52 RN during SAC, he used to joke with us about such situations. Prayers to the captains family
What a huge blunder!As an airline pilot I know that shit happens,all the time.But even changing runways and understanding the complicated navigational system to a wrong waypoint,the magnetic headings are all due south east,and the navigator and the pilots should have known better.Probably,the navigator had the clues,but never told the pilots that something was amiss.When you have a system that punishes mistakes,everybody is just trying to cover up hos own tracks.Bad stuff.Happy they made it somehow...Great channel.Thank you.
Most likely that is what happened (remember the slight pause in the navigator reports). If the mistake was made, punishment was already sure to follow, however if he hadn't made a mistake and made the pilot turn around he would still get punished. Best course of action is to continue and not add mistakes or show doubt.
What a great story to tell to all of our grandchildren. The amount of coincidences is staggering. In the end, after the ordeal was over and both plane and crew were safely back in the USSR, the most important fact is that there weren't any fatalities. Unfortunately, the fact of being so close to the magnetic north was a everyday thing, military officials didn't really learned that lesson and the shooting down of a Korean commercial flight that was out of route by some degrees, did not have such a happy ending, leading to the death of all the passengers and crew. If all of the money spent by the world governments in weapons and war could be applied to end famine and give education, the world would be a better place. Thanks for sharing!!
Eh, I'm pretty sure I've been the target of a couple of practice bombing runs myself, and in a boat no less. The Lake District is where the RAF does a lot of its low-level flight training. The only thing to really notice is that the aircraft flies directly overhead instead of hugging one of the hillsides. Mind you, there was also the time when I was waiting for a (partial) eclipse on top of one of the smaller hills. RAF was running their usual training, sending pairs of Tornadoes down opposite sides of the valley. On one of those passes, I spotted one of the pair easily enough, a little dot moving against the hillside, but the other one wasn't in the usual places to look. Then I noticed a dot against the sky, more or less stationary but rapidly getting larger, and absolutely silent… until it suddenly got *very* loud indeed!
So the Soviets had their own version of "Wrong Way Corrigan." Interesting, and rather funny, too. For those who don't know, Corrigan had flown from Long Beach to New York and was supposed to fly back, but instead landed outside of Dublin some 26 hours after taking off from New York. More people attended Corrigan's ticker tape parade than had attended Charles Lindbergh's parade.
Alright.... I'll give you that one. Hat's off to that transition into the sponsor 👌 You reel me in with Kalashnikov maintenance and then hit me with a maths class..... very clever
Thank you very much! It's a great story. When you think about what can go wrong... Hopefully not on a more serious matter. Thank you also for the beautiful conclusion. Good old Soviet culture.... I think it's great that it's looked at in such a detached way and with humour, because that's how you can learn something from it. Madness and mistakes happen everywhere. But where obedience replaces thinking... Why do so many inventions come from areas where freer thinking and more open communication is possible? I myself grew up under Stalinism in East Germany and I think I know what you mean. One thing always impressed me: While in the GDR there was also the stupid Prussian stupor, the military system of the Soviet armed forces was much more efficient. With us, all the plans were always neatly fulfilled and yet at least two armoured personnel carriers were left behind on every exercise. With our Soviet brothers in arms, some things looked improvised but worked. I was present at a roll call of a Red Army unit for the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. While we German soldiers had to follow a very precise pattern when we stepped out to receive a certificate, so that everything looked neat and tidy, the Soviets simply pushed their way through quickly. And their eyes practically fell out at this "disorder". Even when the teams were chatting and joking at the parade, which was strictly forbidden in our country. But when the Soviets then marched past their flag and their superiors, which they did so exactly, my mouth fell open in amazement. In the Red Army, too, everyone had to greet only their direct superiors and not everyone else. It was completely different in the GDR army, where everyone and everything of higher rank had to be saluted. Thank you very much for this cool video. And all the best to you, your family and your friends! PS: another difference was that in the German army non-commissioned officers stood between the soldiers and officers. So it happened that as a non-commissioned officer I was taken along as an interpreter by a senior officer when he met with his Soviet colleagues (after the roll call mentioned above). The Red Army officers were visibly uncomfortable that a rank like me was allowed to sit at the table. Perhaps also because there was alcohol? In any case, it was the only time I was officially drunk on duty: with beer. When the vodka came, I was asked to leave (but then everyone was very friendly). And we know: vodka replaces every dictionary... :) PPS: PPS: what is also funny: When there were already the first calculators, our math teacher always preached to us that it would always remain necessary to be able to use the slide rule (NL ka). This would never be replaced by calculators. And although this is probably a typical example of professional blindness, he was our most popular teacher. Always super correct and with a very fine sense of humor. In Germany they also say: Humor is when you laugh anyway. That's definitely better than destructive anger. By the way, I once found one of the first pilot textbooks of the USSR on the Internet. Maybe you know it: the one with a boy in many funny drawings. Super well explained. Well, it's not for nothing that you always had such great pilots! :) (Many in the West are unaware of the long history of Russian aviation and space travel. And why the Soviets, unlike others, resent being so associated with the V2. For one thing, most knowledge is with von Braun went to the Western Allies and on the other hand the SU had already successfully launched liquid fuel rockets before the war.That was before Korolev, like other talented scientists and technicians, was sent to one of these special gulags.Where he first got out to the German To be able to inspect rocket technology. And: the father of Chinese space travel, Qian Xuesen, was a scholar at a US university at the time of end ww2 and therefore also interrogated von Braun and colleagues as an expert.)
a junkers 88 night fighter landed in wales and they thought they was over southern france. 1 member of the crew even told a member of the royal air force off at the base for smoking. a bit later they realised theyd landed in the wrong nation and flew the opposite direction lol. the 88 is now in the plane museum in hendon london.
