Who Was the First Person to Drop a Bomb From an Aeroplane 

There's an aerial war museum near DC. It's not one of the big museums, it's the place they store and refurbish aircraft from the past century before being presented to the public in one of the big ones. Most aircraft are just piled in there, (I once saw the prototype of the German flying wing from WWII shoved up against a wall [it was pretty small] next to paint cans and trash). One of the planes I saw being readied there was a WWI - pretty sure it was French - bomber. They still hadn't worked out segmented ailerons at the time of its creation so the whole wing and tail would be warped/deformed to guide the plane. The plane had a little segmented/slatted portal in the floor of the cockpit - maybe 1.5 feet square - through which bombs could be dropped. I thought this was the first bomber but it sounds like the Italians may have beaten it.

I need this channel to keep on existing Simon. I need you to spend more time on it. I need you to never give up on it. Because duh-duh du du duh, duh-duh du du duh. Iconic

Bulgarian army in 1912. like the individual in Italy they dropped grenades, but again first army to drop bombs from airplanes as a war strategy. Simeon Petrov I believe was the brains behind that. .

Some turk, more than a century ago: "Hey guys, what's that whistling noise?"

3:26 While the 1899 Hague Convention limited the rule to 5 years, the 1907 Hague Convention renewed it, and said it would only expire at the end of a third Hague conference ; this third conference never actually happened. So, technically, the declaration is still in effect.

Walter Somer's, where Saddams Hussein's Super Gun barrels were made. In the reception lobby there are the fins, a carrying handle and nose cone from a 1914 German aerial bomb. It was dropped from a Zeppelin which at the time were flown at a higher altitude than defending fighters could reach. Walter Somer's, Halesowen, makes the shaft drives for the R.N. and so was a legitimate target. I think this was the first example of bombing a military target.

I'm pleasantly surprised that a big part of the reasons people use to judge the US military as soulless mass murderers, were proposed and implemented by our judges first. I admit that the US might have gotten a bit overzealous with their utilization after adopting them, but it's nice to know you're more normal than you thought... Then it scares the hell out of me to know that we're more normal than thought 🤔 humanity is really broken.

Well I was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base long ago, glad I could learn some about the pilot.

I have always found it equal parts hilarious and fascinating that humans will take any new technology and use it for war or porn

6:16 He makes a pretty solid point...

Hey, Simon's writers, since you mentioned Desert Storm, do 73 Easting, the last great tank battle before ... well, people forgot how to use tanks properly.

Regarding air power, how about covering General Billy Mitchell and his court martial?

12:18 the country's that syted the 1899 convention against the dropping of booms from balloons also egnored the part saying "For a turm of FIVE years" at the time of the war the flight that dropped the first booms approximately 12 years has passed putting it 7 years after that turm expired

Your comments on the evils strategic bombing got it mostly wrong. While there is a component of "destroying their will to fight", the main reason was to take out their weapons manufacturing and economic power. Any military expert can verify that a protracted war is fought between factories.

excellent introducing

8:25 Yeah, well... Once again, in the words of Will Smith in Independence Day, "Don't start nothin'; Won't be nothin'!"

Thas a good blazer

Maybe you could cover the era of enlisted pilots, 1912 to 1942.

According to my wife I’m the first person to serial bomb a toilet..

We did THAT despite the fact we knew that had NOthing, but they did have something we like a lot.

"Carpet Bombing" is the opposite of the correct term that should be used to apply to the type of aerial campaign that operation Desert Storm was. Up to that time in the history of air power, though there are always errors & collateral damage that accompany all wars, that particular campaign marked the greatest success to that point in history, with the latest developments in state of the art precision munitions & targeting systems of the kind that weopons industry contributors had been striving to achieve towards the objective of avoidance of collateral damage that the allies of World War 2 had fancied themselves attempting to achieve since that time. The term "Carpet Bombing," by contrast can only mean a campaign of an intentionally willful indiscriminate indifferent pattern of area destruction whatever the type of delivery method used. A case could be (& has been made) that the US atomic Bombing of Japan was such a case but I think that in debating the morality of alternative strategies in war that I believe that when wars occur, though I personally disapprove of war it happens anyway irrespective of my or anyone else's preference that for the duration of such violent events,morality takes a vacation & leaves expediency in charge. Whenever such terms are applied, I council the inclusion of the understanding of questions of intent.

A suggestion: if you mention other videos in your productions, it would be really nice to link them somewhere...

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One of the first bombardments in history was did by the bulgarian army in 1912 at the siege of adrianopol when bulgarian pilots radul milkov and prodan tarakchiev drop some bombs on adrianopol railway station...the bombs were prepared by the bulgarian flete,also first woman to be military pilot was a bulgarian woman named raina kasabova

Your HH logo looks a LOT like the history channel's History Hits HH logo.. which came first? PS, Can Danny write that script? 😬👍

The US never used poison gas bombs during WW2.

Siege of Adrianople - 1912

That's an awesome story. I read a book in high school that said the first bombing happened in 1913 Naco, Mexico. Obviously the author wasn't a subscriber and the book was pre internet "Bloody Border". The Mexican government hired German mercenary pilots to fly soldaldos around chucking dynamite down onto the heads of Pancho Villa and his bandit rebels. One day they had a bad drop that landed on the Arizona (US) side killing a couple Buffalo Soldiers (US Calvary) who were drinking in the saloon watching the battle. This caused the Buffaloes to return fire and to continue to return fire everytime they saw a plane limiting any further bombing campaigns on the border. Really cool story. There is a lot of history on the Arizona-Sonora border you guys could have fun with.

It's a shame that Iraq didn't have nukes in 1991 and used them. Pretty sure Iran won't make the same mistake and will wait until nukes are ready to be put on various missiles before either kicking the US out of the Middle East or making it to where it isn't usable by anyone in the process.

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