Portobelloman

By portobelloman

200th Blip and the case of the balloon bomber

This is a photograph of my Great Great Grandfather and mother, my Grandfather resplendant in his Royal Hampshire Fusilier's uniform in which he rose to the rank of captain in the newly formed "Foreign bad business section".
His great claim to fame is that he pioneered "stealth bombing" in which he would drop prepared bombs from balloons on the enemy.
He met his end when they miscalulated how light the balloon would be when he dropped his bombs on a mission to the Sudan, that and a freak (lost) trade wind, and he crashed on Ibiza, he died 5 years later of dyspepsia (a big killer then).

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