"Truth is stranger than fiction" goes the old saying - and this blog seeks to make available to all as many stories and anectdotes as possible that highlight the strange, interesting and, sometimes, funny lives of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people down the ages, as well as share some difficult-to believe tidbits of information. Enjoy!!!
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Unique missiles
In the early days of World War-1, French airmen carried bags of bricks in their planes. Machine-guns were not then in use, since the problem of firing through the propeller had not yet been solved. The French tried to bring down German planes by throwing bricks into their propellers - and two planes are recorded as having been destroyed in this way.