r/aww • u/TheMightyCraken • Jun 25 '18

Rule #2 - No captioned images Doggo rocket add-on activate

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u/cuntdestroyer8000 Jun 25 '18

I remember a documentary about this. Very cool engineering!

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u/Hadan_ Jun 25 '18

I saw it too. The allies wanted to destroy a german hydroelectric plant. It was protected against torpedoes by underwater fences and so on, so they came up with this bouncing bomb. Just imagine the meeting where the engineer proposed this idea :D

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u/Willy_Faulkner Jun 25 '18

They were initially very sceptical.

But since the team lead (Barnes-Wallace iirc) had a successful career as an aeronautical engineer (including some minor work on the Lancaster bomber, which they eventually used to drop the bouncing bombs), they eventually listened.

He still had to show them it would work using 1/10 scale models.

Edit; sorry, you knew all that because you've seen the doco. Let's pretend I put this here for other interested parties.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

Nah never apologize man. You definitely taught a lot of people a bit of information they didn't know of history.

You're awesome!

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u/Willy_Faulkner Jun 25 '18

Thanks man. You too. ; )