American Bouncing Bomb Test Accident (8 April 1945.)
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- USAAF drop tests carried out in Florida were abandoned, after the bomb bounced back striking the Douglas A-26C causing a crash which killed the crew.
The British sent 25 High Balls to Wright Field, Ohio , renamed "Speedee" bombs, for use in USAAF trials. Drop tests but the programme was abandoned, after the bomb bounced back at A-26C-25-DT Invader (43-22644) on Water Range 60, causing loss of the rear fuselage and the crash on 28 April 1945.
Tests were conducted by the UK on bouncing bombs between 1942 - 43 and an aircraft lost for the same reason that the plane was too low to the water. The American aircraft is even lower than the UK plane that was lost. Did the US not review what was already known?
RIP to the crew.
Any deaths during war are sad, but these are especially tragic.
These men were Stateside, this was just a test, and the war was almost over.
Twenty-five Highballs, were sent to the USAAF . Drop tests carried out in Florida were abandoned, after the bouncing bomb struck the A-26C instantly killing the crew of two
at least it was quick
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I noticed that the first splash from the successful pass almost hit the tail.
I believe that in later American post war tests the aircraft was destroyed by being struck by the splash. The video is online
Welcome back man 😁
Interesting, thanks for the upload.
Out of curiosity do you have a longer version of this footage?
Oh shit that looks painful
Why would you drop it so low to the ground lmao
Because the engineers had some stupid formula most likely and told them that's how it needs to be done so they listened to them and did as they were told. Which sucks tbh.
@@Neopopulist You would think that their first test would have been from much higher, mainly to avoid exactly what happened.
That was low! Did that bounce up and hit the tail?
Interesting footage. Is more about the details of this footage known?
My guess is, that this was trainings or technical test footage.
Yes a test only with two British Highballs almost completely enclosed in the bomb bay,
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Yes. It really looks like a botched bouncing bomb test.
Think your dates are wrong the war ended in 45. This was tested earlier in the war
What an awesome video, never-seen footage to me! 😁👍 Don't disappear for a whole year again, please!
To Low
Practice to take out that damn.
No it isn't, the dams were long gone by then. This is a later test run conducted by the Americans.
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People weren’t very smart back then lol. Lets make a bouncing bomb, fly 700kmh about 50ft off the ground and drop it.
Like did they only calculate the drop and not the forward movement of the plane that this forward force would bounce the bomb even higher. They just assumed that every bounce would be lower like if you dropped a ball on the ground?
Try wipping the ball, and if it takes the right bounce on an angled surface or something, it can bounce straight up in the air much higher from the point it originally started from
When your racing real nazis for the win shit just had to get tested asap
decades from now the civilization of the future will look back on the civilization of today and marvel at how stupid we were....maybe stupidity has nothing to do with it?
You people surely realise that the original bouncing bomb dropped from 30 feet and worked beautifully in action.
What you are seeing in this video is an _accident_ which is something that even such an immense genius as OP clearly is (😂) can't account for.
In fact if only someone had consulted you then the entire war would probably have been over in a week. 😂😂
@@beatbox9985 Given that this happened when the war in Europe only had about 4 weeks to go, the Nazis didn't have much race left in them.
@@kyle381000 wrong 3 years before the end of the war.
english perfected it , USAAF screws the pooch and kills a crew , never fail's to amaze me
Using a death to push your political narrative, stay classy ;)
Just remember that the US could’ve ended WW2 if Henry Ford and John Rockefeller stopped funding Hitler.
@@kingdomlamb7741 American business and the American government are 2 different things, you’re confusing them.
@@dylanhayslip9206 They are not. Look at Trump, the famous business man previously in the oval office. All of these people are freemasonic Luciferians and they do sick unimaginable things behind closed doors kept secret in blood oaths. Look at the satanic music industry and Hollywood, its all ran by Satan. America is the modern Babylon.
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