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SUMMARY:Dambusters:  Bombing Hitler's Dams - Hugh Hunt
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CONTACT:Hugh Hunt
DESCRIPTION:This is a showing of the USA version of the recent Channel 4 D
 ambusters documentary as shown on PBS Nova.\n\nProgram Description\n\nIn 1
 939\, visionary aircraft designer Barnes Wallis designed a very special bo
 mb that would bounce across water and destroy German dams. The raid in 194
 3 was a success and a 1950s feature film carried the Dambusters story into
  British legend.  But the science behind the bouncing bomb is highly compl
 ex\, and many of Barnes Wallis' vital working calculations have been lost.
  Cambridge engineer Dr Hugh Hunt\, attempts to solve the scientific puzzle
  of exactly how Wallis did it. Starting from scratch\, he rediscovers the 
 brilliance of Wallis's achievement by trying to hit a dam with a bouncing 
 bomb.  It is the first time this has been attempted since the war. Hugh wi
 ll be assisted by dam engineers\, explosives experts\, mechanics and pilot
 s who specialise in low altitude flying.  First Hugh modifies a vintage Se
 cond World War aircraft to carry a bomb the size of an oil drum\, then he 
 asks the pilots to fly dangerously low over a Canadian lake and release th
 e bomb at the perfect point so that it bounces across the water onto a spe
 cially-constructed 130-foot-wide dam. If they're successful they'll blow t
 he dam sky-high.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_Hitler's_Dams\n
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 0
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