Comments by "Mike Armstrong" (@mikearmstrong8483) on "Revolutionary; The Martin B-10" video.

  1. Oh, come on. This thing looks like Bugs Bunny should be flying it, and Elmer Fudd chasing him in a P-26 Peashooter.
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  2. No doubt Ed already knows these details, but for everyone else's benefit, the Army/Navy bombing trials of the 20s were unsuccessful in their intended purpose due to the differing objectives of the services. The Navy wanted to use the trials to learn the effects of various bomb types and sizes on ships, so that resistance could be built into future designs. The Army wanted to prove that ships were obsolete in defending the US coasts and aircraft should become the only means of defending the nation. Meaning that the Army should get the prestige (and the bulk of the defense budget). In the end, the only thing proven was that unmanned, undefended, unmoving ships could be sunk by the primitive bombers of the time. The most vocal advocate of air power at the time was General William Mitchell who was court martialed for insubordination, not for anything related to the bombing tests, but for going straight to the press to criticize his superiors in the War Department (who were not ardent proponents of air power) for their supposed negligence in the loss of the airship Shenandoah.
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