Project Pigeon: Ingenious use of pigeons to guide bombs during WWII(andrewmallis.com)

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Project Pigeon: Ingenious use of pigeons to guide bombs during WWII

http://andrewmallis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/project_pigeon700.jpg

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Does this count as news? It's an interesting curiousity, yes, but it's old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

Perhaps YC needs an "olds" section, as well as a "news" section. Still, it was nice to be reminded again of this eccentricity.