OFF TOPIC: Bouncing bomb

Chips86 · #1 05-02-2011, 07:12 PM

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 · #2 05-02-2011, 07:31 PM

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 · #3 05-02-2011, 07:33 PM

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 · #4 05-02-2011, 08:00 PM

u mean the dambuster?

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

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

#5 05-02-2011, 08:06 PM

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 · #6 05-02-2011, 08:19 PM

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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.