Chesil Beach Bouncing Bomb at Jack Patricia blog

Chesil Beach Bouncing Bomb. He calculated that if dropped at the correct low altitude and from the right release point the bomb would skip along the water and strike the dam wall before running down to its base where it would explode. From december and into early january 1943 testing was carried out using metal spheres dropped from a wellington. In december 1942 and january 1943 testing was undertaken at chesil beach, dorset. The beach was also used for machine gun training and highball bouncing bomb testing during the war. On december 4th 1942 a wellington bomber flown by captain mutt summers, vickers chief test pilot arrived over chesil beach in dorset. The early practical tests of an air launched bomb took place on the fleet, the sheltered lagoon inside of chesil beach with the bombs, which were dimpled like a golf ball, soon showing just how well they could perform. On the night of 16 and 17 may 1943, in one of the most daring operations of the second world war, the raf’s specially formed 617 squadron attacked three main dams in germany’s ruhr valley with a new secret weapon, a highly destructive ‘bouncing bomb’. Tests scaled up to a 54″ sphere launched from a wellington bomber and in late september/october 1942, the first experiments.

Tests scaled up to a 54″ sphere launched from a wellington bomber and in late september/october 1942, the first experiments. The early practical tests of an air launched bomb took place on the fleet, the sheltered lagoon inside of chesil beach with the bombs, which were dimpled like a golf ball, soon showing just how well they could perform. The beach was also used for machine gun training and highball bouncing bomb testing during the war. On the night of 16 and 17 may 1943, in one of the most daring operations of the second world war, the raf’s specially formed 617 squadron attacked three main dams in germany’s ruhr valley with a new secret weapon, a highly destructive ‘bouncing bomb’. He calculated that if dropped at the correct low altitude and from the right release point the bomb would skip along the water and strike the dam wall before running down to its base where it would explode. From december and into early january 1943 testing was carried out using metal spheres dropped from a wellington. In december 1942 and january 1943 testing was undertaken at chesil beach, dorset. On december 4th 1942 a wellington bomber flown by captain mutt summers, vickers chief test pilot arrived over chesil beach in dorset.

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Chesil Beach Bouncing Bomb Tests scaled up to a 54″ sphere launched from a wellington bomber and in late september/october 1942, the first experiments. The beach was also used for machine gun training and highball bouncing bomb testing during the war. He calculated that if dropped at the correct low altitude and from the right release point the bomb would skip along the water and strike the dam wall before running down to its base where it would explode. Tests scaled up to a 54″ sphere launched from a wellington bomber and in late september/october 1942, the first experiments. On the night of 16 and 17 may 1943, in one of the most daring operations of the second world war, the raf’s specially formed 617 squadron attacked three main dams in germany’s ruhr valley with a new secret weapon, a highly destructive ‘bouncing bomb’. In december 1942 and january 1943 testing was undertaken at chesil beach, dorset. The early practical tests of an air launched bomb took place on the fleet, the sheltered lagoon inside of chesil beach with the bombs, which were dimpled like a golf ball, soon showing just how well they could perform. On december 4th 1942 a wellington bomber flown by captain mutt summers, vickers chief test pilot arrived over chesil beach in dorset. From december and into early january 1943 testing was carried out using metal spheres dropped from a wellington.