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crisper

Doodlebugs (1)

Jan 20, 2013 00:01

It’s not much to look at; a stubby collection of sheet steel and plywood. A resonant tube on its ass pushes it along at nearly four hundred miles an hour. In its nose, a spinning propellor winds a counter down. Between them sits two thousand pounds of explosives. When the counter reaches zero, the ungainly bird will dive sharply down, engine ( Read more... )

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robotnik January 22 2013, 13:54:42 UTC

This was great! Loved it, and I'm not a monarchy lover most of the time. I want a whole action movie or comic book series about HRH's aerial adventures.

Is the technical stuff, about doodlebugs and how to foil them, all real?

crisper January 23 2013, 05:39:03 UTC

Oh, yes, tipping the doodlebug was absolutely real practice - it was more reliable and safer than detonating them in the air at cannon range.

Because this is the most recent post ext_1610063 January 23 2013, 05:26:54 UTC

This post is awesome and I love it, but I'm mainly commenting because I'm trying to find a much earlier post of yours. At least, I think it was yours.

I remember a story about someone who was seeking out dead people and studying their very last moments. It included something about the transition from life value 1 to life value 0 and the upward spike created by a dropping electrical signal trying to emulate a square wave drop. Something like "life value >1".

Could you point me to it? It would be sometime during your year of daily posts.

Re: Because this is the most recent post crisper January 23 2013, 05:36:54 UTC

Hm... Not one of mine, I'm afraid, though I like the premise! (I'm actually going through the whole set right now with an eye to editing them together, so I have them all at hand.) Could it have been one of HWRNMNBSOL's?

Re: Because this is the most recent post hwrnmnbsol January 29 2013, 22:21:27 UTC

You are referring to one of my Stopped Clock stories:

http://hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com/46553.html