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"Richard Brooks" wrote in message
... Robert Briggs wrote: Robert Briggs wrote: Richard Brooks wrote: Paul Housley wrote: A while ago, I saw video footage of a bomb being released from a fighter-bomber under test conditions. It was on an aviation documentary. The high speed camera then shows it climb up and destroy the tailplane. I don't think they quite got their trajectory calcs right! This shows up towards the end of a documentary called Dambusters, which has been seen on UKs Channel 4. The Lanc may have had guns, but that doesn't make it a fighter-bomber. That said, without the "fighter-" qualification (and substituting "damage" for "destroy"), the description does indeed suggest the old Bouncing Bomb trials. Correction: I had a quick look at the Channel 4 DVD overnight, which showed the mine staying quite close to the surface - but the Lanc was low enough that the initial splash knocked some bits off the tail section. Hi Robert, I didn't notice that but it was an American aircraft that just turned to flotsam after a second or two in the footage that wsa shown later in the documentary. It kind of reminds me of a short clip shown in (IIRC) an Australian production called Broadcast which was about the last days of guys running around with cine-cameras for the film theatre newsreels. Right at the start is shows lots of news clips and one that stands out is of three Beauforts doing a low fly-past over a bay and as they passed the ship where the film was being made, one of hte Beauforts took a sharp climb, tearing the tail of one of the others with them both crashing into the water. Amazing and I bet there are lots of bits of film we haven't seen. I also wonder if anyone cine-filmed an airshow in Britain where a hurricane accidentally fired into the crowd as it made a pass ? Richard. The aircraft was an American A26 and the weapon was a "Highball" anti-shipping mine that was also indended for use on Mosquitos. John |
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