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SUMMARY:Bombs away: The Dambusters bounce back - The reconstruction of Bar
 nes Wallis' bouncing bomb - Dr Hugh Hunt\, Department of Engineering\, Uni
 versity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20111013T174500Z
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CONTACT:Publicity Officer\, IMechE Beds &amp\; Cambs area
DESCRIPTION:The last time a dam was blown up by a bouncing bomb was in May
  1943. Well\, not true. In October 2010\, Dr Hugh Hunt was asked to act as
  Lead Engineer in a Channel 4 documentary remake of the raid. Together wit
 h Windfall Films his team designed a rig to suspend a spinning bomb under 
 a DC4\, and built a 10m-high dam especially for the purpose of blowing it 
 up.\n\nThis lecture described some of the many challenges they encountered
 \, including scale model testing\, design of a drop rig\, targeting the da
 m and designing the explosive. The experience really put into perspective 
 the wartime achievements of Barnes Wallis and his engineers and airmen.\n\
 n*Dr Hugh Hunt* is a genuine spin-doctor. He is one of the UK's leading ex
 perts on the behaviour of spinning objects\, with a particular love of gyr
 oscopes and boomerangs.\n\nA Fellow of Trinity College\, Dr Hunt is a Seni
 or Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a member of 
 the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. His current research interests in
 clude reducing vibration on high-speed railway networks and improving the 
 efficiency of wind turbines. Dr Hunt is also leading an international team
  planning to pump tiny dust particles into the stratosphere\, in a bid to 
 slow down climate change. In the same way Barnes Wallis tried to use engin
 eering to stop the war\, Dr Hunt is attempting to use engineering to fight
  the battles of the modern world.\n\nBorn and raised in Melbourne\, Austra
 lia\, Dr Hunt gained his first degree at the University of Melbourne befor
 e moving to the UK to study for his PhD in Engineering at Cambridge. He ha
 s appeared as an expert contributor in several television programmes inclu
 ding Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections (National Geographic)\, The
  Greatest Ever Weapons (Discovery) and Fifth Gear (five).
LOCATION:Lecture Room 0\, Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Tr
 umpington Street\, Cambridge CB2 1PZ
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