Yours truly cannot say if, as a few sources state, cargo gliders were used in September 1939, during the invasion of Poland. This technology, say I, was the cargo / transport glider, a weapon used in combat for the first time in May 1940, by the German air force, or Luftwaffe, to land soldiers with more precision than one could expect when using paratroopers. It fell by the wayside during the years that followed this abominable period of the 20th century. The technology at the heart of this article came into existence in the years that preceded the Second World War. This conflict was a turning point in the history of many technologies that surround us, some of them good and some others bad, from antibiotics and helicopters to electronic computers and nuclear bombs. The year was 1943 and much of the Earth was in the throes of a cataclysmic conflict, the Second World War. Would you be pleased to hear (read?) that the event at the heart of this week’s article took place in summer, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? All right, all right, our event actually took place on Earth but our planet was so different back then that one could argue it was an alien world. How are you today? I can only hope that the fall weather is not affecting you too much.
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