Wellington NA929 highball trials?

[gmsphoto]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone had any pics of a highball wellington or any information.

It will be appreciated.

Many thanks

Graeme

[Ed Russell]

According to The Aeroplane Feb 2008 NA929 crashed while on depth-charge dropping trials killing two airmen and the FTO off Arran on 17/10/45. I have seen Mosquitos, Invaders and Avengers mentioned in Highball literature but not Wellingtons nor Arran. This is not to say it didn't happen though.

[Adrian Hills]

A Wellington is seen with Highball in the Dambusters film if I remember correctly. 

[303sqn]

Media not available online - IWM

 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060043053

[HOUSTON]

so far this..  but still researching for you.

 

[HOUSTON]

so far this..  but still researching for you.

 

 

 

http://www.helensburgh-heritage.co.uk/index.php/heritage/military/1477-maee-tested-dambusters-bombs

 

 

If you scroll down you will read about the aircraft .

 

BJ895/G. Wellington   G stands for GUARD.

https://wings-on-film.fandom.com/wiki/BJ895/G.

 

 

Edited November 23, 2020 by HOUSTON

[HOUSTON]

Munitions Design – Barnes Wallis Foundation .. with some photos.

 

https://www.barneswallisfoundation.co.uk/life-and-work/munitions-design/

 

 

 

 

[HOUSTON]

photos of bomb  pencil drawing  and About Operation Chastise. 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mikesresearch.com/2020/02/23/bouncing-bombs/amp/

 

 

[593jones]

On 11/23/2020 at 3:07 PM, HOUSTON said:

photos of bomb  pencil drawing  and About Operation Chastise. 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mikesresearch.com/2020/02/23/bouncing-bombs/amp/

 

 

 

Interesting article in the link, but I think the writer was wrong when he stated the pilot was responsible for maintaining the height in the attack.  It would have been impossible for the pilot to see the beams from the lights on the water, this would have been the responsibility of the flight engineer looking out of the cockpit side windows.  Additionally, not all the bomb-aimers used the wooden sighting device; Max Hastings, in 'Chastise' has this to say: 'Most crews, indeed, used Dann's sight on the night, but some - for instance Dave Shannon and his bomb-aimer Len Sumpter - made private choices to substitute Chinagraph marks on the perspex of the nose blister, with strings drawn back taut to the bridge of the bomb-aimer's nose.  Neither the Dann sight, nor the home-made aid offered a reliable bomb-aimer's tool,  Both were improvised expedients, not solutions.'

[Adrian Hills]

On 8/29/2014 at 6:17 AM, Ed Russell said:

According to The Aeroplane Feb 2008 NA929 crashed while on depth-charge dropping trials killing two airmen and the FTO off Arran on 17/10/45. I have seen Mosquitos, Invaders and Avengers mentioned in Highball literature but not Wellingtons nor Arran. This is not to say it didn't happen though.

Upkeep, the large device used under the Lanc was described as a “rotating depth charge”

[Work In Progress]

Which indeed it was, being detonated by hydrostatic pistols.