OFF TOPIC: Bouncing bomb

[Chips86]

I am watching a program on channel four where a team of geezers tries to recreate Barnes Wallace's bouncing bomb and saw an AMAZING bit of footage where a bomber was flying too low on a test run and dropped the bomb, which promptly bounced right back up and took the tail of the plane off....does ANYONE know where i can find this footage...it was absolutely amazing.


EDIT: Here it is. Just...wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQEzXWqIpM

ANOTHER EDIT: Another good video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfrAfvYoJBg

[Ivan Fooker]

First video:
But the bomb didnt bounced back imho.
The time to detonate was just not entered.
Means it detonated direclty on touch down.

[Chips86]

Nope, it definately bounced back. It was another angle of the same thing that i saw on the telly, and very clearly showed it bouncing back into the tail.

EDIT: also if you watch the video you can see the bomb bounce straught through the tail and carry on on its trajectory. You sir, are wrong

[Heinz Laube]

u mean the dambuster?

and yes in first vid the bomb bouncing and hit the tail..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JqBiMgC2Wg

It did bounce back and hit the tail - it is clearly visible in the video. Poor chaps. I just hope they did not realize what happened and that they went quickly.

Back then and particularly during these dramatic years a basic engineering approach was still a lot of trial and error and the cost in human life was accepted. I cannot remember how many people died on the launch site when they did trials on the V2 rocket but it was a lot.

Also few know that 3 astronauts died when trying out the Appollo capsule.

[Chips86]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

It did bounce back and hit the tail - it is clearly visible in the video. Poor chaps. I just hope they did not realize what happened and that they went quickly.

Back then and particularly during these dramatic years a basic engineering approach was still a lot of trial and error and the cost in human life was accepted. I cannot remember how many people died on the launch site when they did trials on the V2 rocket but it was a lot.

Also few know that 3 astronauts died when trying out the Appollo capsule.

An awful lot of cosmonauts 'vanished' as well, with no explanation from the soviet government. Infact there are quite a few who believed Yuri Gregarin was not the first man in space, only the first to have survived.

To lighten up a bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6DeQywG-2k

[Seeker]

Ha! I laugh at your out moded manual systems!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1JBYIClEd0

But any one can have a good idea, it's the development that counts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbL1_...eature=related

[plokkum]

Check out my Dam Buster animation I did last year. The compression made it way too dark though. Still need to upload a better version:

http://motionproductions.nl/demos.php

Edit: here is the model I built for the animation

[JMB]

Chips,

A link to the story behind the A26 Invader shown in your first clip.

Link

Cheers,

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