JOPLIN, Mo. — It’s hard to shoot down an enemy plane you can’t find. That was the whole idea behind a surprisingly low tech means of neutralizing German radar on D-Day. “When you can’t see the plane ...
With not a drop of rain falling in Northwest Florida on Thursday from this signature, many may have been wondering what exactly this anomaly was. The National Weather Service in Mobile identified this ...
How chaff was invented in World War II. Roger Connor Whipple donated this packet of chaff, a cardboard envelope filled with hundreds of strands of aluminum. Center: A Boeing B-17 airman pushes chaff ...
The bare-bones simplicity of chaff lining may provide farmers with resistant weed control for pennies on the dollar. Funneling soybean chaff and its weed seed contents out of a combine into ...
A B-52 bomber is approaching its primary target: rail yards in the Beloostrov district of Leningrad. Intel reports the area is likely defended by S-25 Berkut and S-75 Dvinia surface to air missiles ...
An incident that confused Evansville-area residents in December has now gone worldwide. Two weeks before Christmas, what looked lines of storms appeared on weather radar above Western Kentucky and ...