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Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 12:06 am Post subject: Dam Busters
Reenactment on UK TV _________________ I deny everything I lie about everything And everything I deny Is a lie!

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Posted: 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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Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Dam Busters
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: Dam Busters
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".. www.freerepublic.com/f...7043/posts _________________ "All facts go to clearly prove that Shades is a thrice-cursed traitor & mentally deranged person steeped in inveterate enmity toward mankind"

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Posted: 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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Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: Dam Busters
- Shades 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? _________________ "Once your reputation is ruined, you can live quite freely."

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Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 11:22 pm
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- Shades

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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Posted: 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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