The folly of it all.

I guess when your at odds with an enemy coast anything is possible but this was one of the farthest reaches of what one would consider a viable option!!! God bless them all.
WWII and the Panjandrum - YouTube

RIP Grant Imahara. I loved his attitude.

Bob

Yes I agree with you Bob, a sad loss at a young age a very very clever person.

Most likely a case of "this is our project and we need to keep working on it as we haven't got anything else to work on at the moment and we need to look busy."

I've referred to this book before: The Secret War 1939-45 : Gerald Pawle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Like R.V. Jones "Most Secret War", one gets a good sense of all the perpetual human foibles that are any country's "secret enemy" in war as in peace.

I guess they didn't do an episode on Hobart's "Funnies" and how Omar Bradley declined to use them, not just on D Day, but throughout the campaign?

Many new ideas seem ridiculous and laughable to begin with and some ideas are found to be practical, like the bouncing bomb, while other ideas are not, like the example above. Many people, at one time, thought the notion of a jet engine to provide the propulsion for powered flight to be totally ridiculous or the idea that a tank could be useful on the battlefield as laughable.

Yes I've got the R V Jones on the shelf, I had another one on WWI of a similar vein but have stored it otherwise I would put the title up for those that may be interested.