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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 12:06 am
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Reenactment on UK TV

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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 7:58 am
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Watched that.
Very enjoyable.
After the war my Father became an engineer and worked with Barnes Wallace at Brooklands, which I now live about five miles away from and has become a massive aircraft and motor museum.

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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:57 am
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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:16 pm
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Didn't they sort of re-enact this recently with a Lancaster? I was sure I saw pics of that in the last few years...


ahh...they did it "locally"..

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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 6:22 pm
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Yah, Slow's was where they tried to re-design the whole bomb, and mission from scratch, building a custom dam in Canada to target.

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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:11 pm
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Yah, Slow's was where they tried to re-design the whole bomb, and mission from scratch, building a custom dam in Canada to target.


Why not just use a dam that's already there, I mean it's Canada, right?

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Yah, Slow's was where they tried to re-design the whole bomb, and mission from scratch, building a custom dam in Canada to target.


Why not just use a dam that's already there, I mean it's Canada, right?


Yeah, but any Tim Horton's, Molson breweries or similar critical facilities downstream would nix that plan. Wink

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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 7:00 am
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Good point. lol.
It wasn't a functioning dam, just a structure that was put together in a blind of an existing lake.
It had some water behind it which was incorporated into the design to show the pressure reaction.
I missed the very end of it so didn't see if they were eventually allowed actual explosives in the device.

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