Episode 463 • • 2:38:25 - 2:40:58
463: Dead Hand of Bureaucracy
Spitfire Pilots, V1 Buzz Bombs and WWII Drone Origins
A 79-year-old ham radio operator from Hastings, England, shares stories of World War II Spitfire pilots defending against V1 "buzz bombs." He describes how pilots would fly alongside the unmanned rockets and use their wingtips to physically flip the bombs off course and into the sea. The hosts characterize these early rockets as the original, less sophisticated ancestors of modern drones.