Dash119
Senior Airman
Ditto...Okay, where's that quote of Colonel Tibbet's found?
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Ditto...Okay, where's that quote of Colonel Tibbet's found?
Okay, where's that quote of Colonel Tibbet's found?
Ditto...
The things one learns here.
So Sweeny was truly between a rock and a hard place, and was forced by circumstances to make on the spot decisions
Hey guys,
Do we have any idea how much the effective range of the Bockscar (or Enola Gay for that matter) was reduced by the winds aloft? If the winds aloft had a significant effect that might eliminate the possibility of the Lancaster as a delivery platform. At least if making it back to Tinian is a requirement during planning.
I suspect that the a fairly small modification to the spec to which the B-29 and B-32 were built (and the XB-30 and XB-31 were designed for) would make the B-29 impossible to modify for carriage of the atomic bomb by making it impossible to modify the bomb bay to fit either Little Boy or Fat Man.
Does anybody here happen to have knowledge of the B-29's detailed design documents, including how the dimensions of the bomb bays was determined?
Did he say it was practical for the final Fat Man bomb, or for a provisional design that may have had different dimensions?
(Little Boy was originally supposed to be approximately 17 ft, but was later reduced to 10 ft)
Yes, just quoting the articleI think we can excuse this statement as Thin Man was the 17 foot long bomb, not Little Boy. I think I pointed this out ages ago... I think we are going round in circles...![]()
Yes, just quoting the article
Under the circumstances its hard to to believe that Ramsey would give specific details of such an important secret project away to anyone, let alone a foreign national, regardless of why.
Not to put too fine a point on it but what was Chadwick going to say? No, our bomber can't handle it? Of course he's going to say yes. His comment doesn't really mean anything in the scheme of the discussion other than an interesting aside.