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SUMMARY:Dambusters:  Building the Bouncing Bomb\, behind the scenes - RAeS
 /IMechE talk - Dr Hugh Hunt\, Department of Engineering\, University of Ca
 mbridge
DTSTART:20111013T180000Z
DTEND:20111013T200000Z
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CONTACT:Publicity Officer\, IMechE Beds &amp\; Cambs area
DESCRIPTION:Free talk organised jointly by the Royal Aeronautical Society 
 and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers\n\nThe last time a dam was blo
 wn 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 documenta
 ry remake of the raid. Together with Windfall Films his team designed a ri
 g to suspend a spinning bomb under a DC4\, and built a 10m-high dam especi
 ally for the purpose of blowing it up.\n\nThis lecture described some of t
 he many challenges they encountered\, including scale model testing\, desi
 gn of a drop rig\, targeting the dam and designing the explosive. The expe
 rience really put into perspective the wartime achievements of Barnes Wall
 is and his engineers and airmen.\n\n*Dr Hugh Hunt* is a genuine spin-docto
 r. He is one of the UK's leading experts on the behaviour of spinning obje
 cts\, with a particular love of gyroscopes and boomerangs.\n\nA Fellow of 
 Trinity College\, Dr Hunt is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the Unive
 rsity of Cambridge and a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
 . His current research interests include 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 i
 nto the stratosphere\, in a bid to slow down climate change. In the same w
 ay Barnes Wallis tried to use engineering to stop the war\, Dr Hunt is att
 empting to use engineering to fight the battles of the modern world.\n\nBo
 rn and raised in Melbourne\, Australia\, Dr Hunt gained his first degree a
 t the University of Melbourne before moving to the UK to study for his PhD
  in Engineering at Cambridge. He has appeared as an expert contributor in 
 several television programmes including Richard Hammond's Engineering Conn
 ections (National Geographic)\, The Greatest Ever Weapons (Discovery) and 
 Fifth Gear (five).\n\nDr Hunt will be supported by his PhD student Hilary 
 Costello.\n\n19.00 for refreshments. Talk starts at 19.30. Ends at 21.00 f
 ollowing questions and discussion\n\nFree to attend. Open to the public. N
 o need to register.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 0\, Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Tr
 umpington Street\, Cambridge CB2 1PZ
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