gasping for breath
WTF! How did this happen!?!
I totally CRUSHED **Gonzo **, **Loki **(hey, welcome back!) and almost everyone else as well!!!
More Feuds like this one, please 
Congrats, Silenus!
And Worm, are you showing off to welcome me back? 
Elendil’s Heir, thanks for a fun feud. And as always, thanks to the Feud Mistress, Rebo!
Nah, this is where I usually end up ehrm, hurkle, blush 
at least in my mind
I think this has had the best response rate of any of my Feuds evah. And DoloRebo, of course, many thanks again!
I lost to bait. Oh, the humiliation. Even though he just barely beat me. A couple points here or there and I could have gotten to 35 where I belong.
At least I’m not completely in the crapper. :o
Huh, third. I Yeagered when I should have Lindberghed.
Holy crap! Did I set a record for lowest points? I think I did. Woo hoo! 
I knew this was going to be bad from the beginning. At least I’ve still got somewhere to go down to. I was 49th.
Wandering off on a tangent but Mitchell’s contribution to military aviation is overhyped. His theories were in fact generally wrong. Bomber pilots between the world wars insisted that they could drop a bomb precisely on a target from a high altitude. Mitchell said that a bomber could hit a ship. He was able to do this under controlled conditions against ships at anchor but the navy argued that a plane couldn’t drop a bomb on a moving ship. The navy was right. Ships could be hit by bombs but only after specialized planes like dive bombers or torpedo bombers were developed.
During the war, it was found that bombers had greatly overestimated their accuracy. The standard was defined as any bomb that landed within 1000 feet of its intended target was considered a hit. And even with that loose a standard, over nine out of ten bombs missed their target. There were bombing missions where the bombs were so widely scattered, the Germans weren’t even sure what city had been the intended target for the mission.
My unofficial score of zero in the flag feud still stands.
I knew that dive bombing was more effective as an anti-shipping technique, but I thought that much of that was because high altitude bombing was the purview of the larger bombers - they had the power to get up there and stay up there, while carrying a large load. And by the nature of things, the large bombers were land-based, compared to the smaller dive-bombing carrier based aircraft.
Add in the planning, communications and control loops involved in getting a sortie of land-based bombers after a target, and I think that has a lot to add to why anti-shipping bombing was more often accomplished by dive bombers.
OTOH, it’s worth noting, to support your position, that the Bikini Atoll tests, against a fleet at anchor, with the target ship painted orange, was missed by, I think, 500 yards.
I finished behind Worm. For that reason, and that reason only, I demand a RECOUNT!
WWII bomber pilot Kermit Beahan supposedly claimed he could drop a bomb in a pickle barrel from thirty thousand feet. I guess he forget to mention the barrel had to be half a mile wide and he needed ten tries to hit it.