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World War II-era bomber Tupolev Tu-2 with a bomb bay openInside the bomb bay of an Avro ShackletonAn Avro Vulcan showing its bomb bay open
The bomb bay or weapons bay on some military aircraft is a compartment to carry bombs, usually in the aircraft's fuselage, with "bomb bay doors" which open at the bottom. The bomb bay doors are opened and the bombs are dropped when over the target or at a specified launching point.
The bombbay or weapons bay on some military aircraft is a compartment to carry bombs, usually in the aircraft's fuselage, with "bombbay doors" which...
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A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both...
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commonly used bombers. A long, unobstructed bombbay meant that the Lancaster could take the largest bombs used by the RAF, including the 4,000 lb (1,800 kg)...
Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, and Parsons. It was then wheeled to the bombbay of the B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar after the plane's command pilot...
the bombbay and a slot cut in the bomb doors - the bomb protruded slightly through this and, on release, simply fell out through the hole. The bomb later...
navigator, sat side by side. A single passenger could ride in the aircraft's bombbay when necessary. The Mosquito FB Mk. VI was often flown in special raids...
the aft bombbay, with some of its length protruding into the forward bay. The implosion-type bomb was mounted in the forward bay. New bomb suspensions...
fuselage bombbay used four bomb racks but in later versions eight modular standard bomb racks were fitted, to carry one SC 250 kg (550 lb) bomb or four...
carry only 1,000 lb (450 kg) load on bombbay and 200 lb (91 kg) on wing cells. The bombbays, bombbay doors and bomb racks of various series were modified...
the split bombbays and stacked engines impossible, thus the engines were placed side by side in pairs on either side of a single bombbay, with the fuselage...
of Supply trials experienced a collapse of the rear bombbay bulkhead while cycling the bombbay doors, damaging hydraulic and electrical systems; the...
plutonium bomb, giving it the same ballistic and handling characteristics. Specifications for the bomb required that it be carried in the forward bombbay of...
and an Rb 20/30 was mounted in the second bombbay. Jettisonable fuel tanks were carried in the forward bombbay. For smoke-laying, the aircraft could be...
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