Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

https://youtube.com/shorts/gpU-hBGBaIA

Short clip showing b29 remote turret functioning.

I hadn't realised how much more advanced they were than a 17 in this respect.

[Eric Mc]

The B-29 was the single most expensive engineering project of World War 2 - at least on the Allied side.

[JerseyS2000]

even more than the Manhattan project? crikey

[Eric Mc]

JerseyS2000 said:

even more than the Manhattan project? crikey

Yes.

Of course, the two separate programmes eventually merged, but on its own, the B-29 was hugely expensive in its own right. And quite controversial too.

Another massively expensive project was the development of the Norden Bomb Sight.

[PushedDover]

Riiiiight wheres the grab bag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCWHY2P5wc

[DMN]

But the Norden proved to be not actually that good, its myth has out ranged its actually success by some factor.

There is a fair article here that covers the issues it faced, one of the main problems it faced, one which was not found during development was clouds:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-...

H2S bombing radar was argubably a much better inovation, and was last used in 1982.

[Eric Mc]

Yep - the Norden was not as good as it was cracked up to be, especially in the conditions experienced over Europe.

[Bonefish Blues]

PushedDover said:

Riiiiight wheres the grab bag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCWHY2P5wc

What massive wave?

[yellowjack]

Bonefish Blues said:

PushedDover said:

Riiiiight wheres the grab bag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCWHY2P5wc

What massive wave?

Never mind waves, massive or otherwise. I want to know where the "Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage" is...

[Bonefish Blues]

yellowjack said:

Bonefish Blues said:

PushedDover said:

Riiiiight wheres the grab bag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCWHY2P5wc

What massive wave?

Never mind waves, massive or otherwise. I want to know where the "Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage" is...

Here you go, a final wave

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

yellowjack said:

Never mind waves, massive or otherwise. I want to know where the "Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage" is...

Watch till the end... The SAR helo drops off a crack team welders. Incredible flying.

[PushedDover]

Bonefish Blues said:

yellowjack said:

Bonefish Blues said:

PushedDover said:

Riiiiight wheres the grab bag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCWHY2P5wc

What massive wave?

Never mind waves, massive or otherwise. I want to know where the "Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage" is...

Here you go, a final wave

Sorry all... bad threading.

[PushedDover]

yellowjack said:

Never mind waves, massive or otherwise. I want to know where the "Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage" is...

[yellowjack]

PushedDover said:

yellowjack said:

Never mind waves, massive or otherwise. I want to know where the "Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage" is...

We've all done it, I reckon. Slapping stuff in the wrong thread, or creating a new one when a lively thread on a topic already exists. No harm done though...

[Condi]

"The wheel fell off, sir, it just fell off"

[Baron Greenback]

2 scary helicopter footage in the fog and mid-air refueling! (fwd to good bits)

[RizzoTheRat]

Reminded me of the Sea Stallion refueling incident (which hs probably been posted before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZA8fCSKE8c

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

RizzoTheRat said:

Reminded me of the Sea Stallion refueling incident (which hs probably been posted before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZA8fCSKE8c

That's incredible. I hadn't see it before.

It doesn't take a specialist engineering team writing a safety case to ask can the rotor disc contact the probe under any flight conditions?

That's an almighty balls up from the design team.

[Eric Mc]

What would be your solution?

[RizzoTheRat]

I think the flexible nature of both the rotor head and the blades means you could never ensure this kind of thing can't happen, the solution is make the probe out of something weaker than the blades.