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This is what surprised me about the Wikipedia article - you would think they would have mentioned the simple yet clever way that the crew could ensure that they
by cyberferret 10y ago
This is what surprised me about the Wikipedia article - you would think they would have mentioned the simple yet clever way that the crew could ensure that they were at the correct release height over the water using spotlight beams.
- cheiVia0 10y agoWell why don't you add it yourself then? :)
- bbarn 10y agoBecause some bot will automatically moderate it away? That's what's happened every time I've made even minor spelling corrections on wikipedia.
- tra_eng_u_let 10y ago...because it's not all that clever. Clever, sure. But not profoundly so. It is simply a manner of triangulation. Sine, cosine, tangent. Basic trig. Once they knew the optimal altitude, they probably whipped the rest up in 5 minutes with a slide rule back then. Put some lights here, set the angle. Whamola.
- moioci 10y agoFrom the article: "Height was checked by a pair of intersecting spotlight beams, which, when converging on the surface of the water, indicated the correct height for the aircraft - a method devised for the raid by Benjamin Lockspeiser of MAP," I didn't look to see when this was added.
- cyberferret 10y agoI searched for the phrase 'light' on the article when I looked at it, but didn't see this. Someone may have seen this thread and added it perhaps? Useful addition in any case, and I hope it stays. EDIT: Actually I may have searched for 'lights', which would have returned no results, so perhaps my bad after all.
- cooper12 10y agoIf you look at the page history, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bouncing_bomb&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bouncing_bomb&act..., the last edit was on November 6.
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