During World War II, England was at the forefront of creating Heavy Bomber Aircraft that spun up rapidly in their production and use after the German Luftwaffe dropped bombs on the Non-Miltary target of London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was so incensed that within very short order...he authorized the Head of British Military Bomber Command, “Bomber” Harris... to attack the German City of Berlin and indiscriminately drop their bombs wherever they could as “Pay Back to Adolph Hitler” and Luftwaffe Head and WW I Flying Ace, Air Field Marshall Herman Goering.
Hitler’s angry reaction was to order Goering to shift his attacks away from the England’s Airfields and Radar Stations that were being pounded at that time, almost to extinction... onto the punishment of Great Britain’s civilians and this resulted in their suffering horrendous civilian casualties. Later ... in like gestures of revenge and to break the will of the German people, the cities of Cologne and Hamburg and many others would experience the loss of almost 700,000 people... half of which were civilians killed as a result of Incendiary Bombs that basically burned these places to the ground in Hurricane like Fire-Storms. By the end of World War II... 60,000,000 Human Beings would perish... as the final proof that “Nobody ever WINS a War...”
The two Major Bomber Aircraft involved on the British side of these events were the Lancaster “LANK” powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines (the same engine famously used in the British Spitfire and the American P-51 Mustang Fighter Planes) as well as the equally famous Wellington Bomber. But what is not commonly known here... is that the Wellington Bomber was designed by the same Scientist and Engineer (Dr. Barnes Wallace) who dreamed up the notion of using “Bouncing Bombs” to destroy the Hydro-Electric producing Dams in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys supporting Germany’s industrial might. These actions are available to see in the British Movie “The Dam Busters”and shows the Lancaster Bombers at work.
One of the features that was very unusual about the Wellington was its brilliant use of a ‘repeating geodesic form’ making up most of the All Aluminum Fuselage and other super-structures. This design allowed these light weight planes to be rapidly mass-produced and maintain consistency and reliability with the added aspect of having a simple assembly. The first Video called “A Worker’s Weekend” shows a Team of English civilians volunteers trying to beat the record set at an American Factory of Building a Bomber "From Scratch" in under 48 Hours... to being put through its paces in a Test Flight, The Brits wanted to do the same task in under 30 hours and would succeed to do so after less than 25 Hours to completion. This is the Best Example of Mechanical Modularity using Human Labour that I have ever seen!
This video shows the Story of the Wellington Bomber with the people who built the planes and the ageing pilots who flew them in combat to Victory:
These videos are about Dr. Barnes Wallace’ and his “Dam Busters”, "Bouncing Bombs" (thanks to liquid water being incompressible), British Aircraft Crews and their Special Tactics:
Hitler’s angry reaction was to order Goering to shift his attacks away from the England’s Airfields and Radar Stations that were being pounded at that time, almost to extinction... onto the punishment of Great Britain’s civilians and this resulted in their suffering horrendous civilian casualties. Later ... in like gestures of revenge and to break the will of the German people, the cities of Cologne and Hamburg and many others would experience the loss of almost 700,000 people... half of which were civilians killed as a result of Incendiary Bombs that basically burned these places to the ground in Hurricane like Fire-Storms. By the end of World War II... 60,000,000 Human Beings would perish... as the final proof that “Nobody ever WINS a War...”
The two Major Bomber Aircraft involved on the British side of these events were the Lancaster “LANK” powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines (the same engine famously used in the British Spitfire and the American P-51 Mustang Fighter Planes) as well as the equally famous Wellington Bomber. But what is not commonly known here... is that the Wellington Bomber was designed by the same Scientist and Engineer (Dr. Barnes Wallace) who dreamed up the notion of using “Bouncing Bombs” to destroy the Hydro-Electric producing Dams in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys supporting Germany’s industrial might. These actions are available to see in the British Movie “The Dam Busters”and shows the Lancaster Bombers at work.
One of the features that was very unusual about the Wellington was its brilliant use of a ‘repeating geodesic form’ making up most of the All Aluminum Fuselage and other super-structures. This design allowed these light weight planes to be rapidly mass-produced and maintain consistency and reliability with the added aspect of having a simple assembly. The first Video called “A Worker’s Weekend” shows a Team of English civilians volunteers trying to beat the record set at an American Factory of Building a Bomber "From Scratch" in under 48 Hours... to being put through its paces in a Test Flight, The Brits wanted to do the same task in under 30 hours and would succeed to do so after less than 25 Hours to completion. This is the Best Example of Mechanical Modularity using Human Labour that I have ever seen!
This video shows the Story of the Wellington Bomber with the people who built the planes and the ageing pilots who flew them in combat to Victory:
These videos are about Dr. Barnes Wallace’ and his “Dam Busters”, "Bouncing Bombs" (thanks to liquid water being incompressible), British Aircraft Crews and their Special Tactics:
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