Atomic Lancasters?

[303sqn]

Somewhere, way back in the dark dim reaches of my old mind, I seem to recall reading that a B-29 was tested with two 12,000lb. Tallboys. That makes more sense to me. I wonder if this photo has been mis-captioned?

Chris

No, it is not mis-captioned. They had the idea of dropping them on the continental shelf off the coast of Japan to cause a catastrophic slip of the continental slope and Yokohama would slide into the sea.

It didn't stop there. On 5^th March 1948 Captain W.A.Looney released a single 44,000 lb bomb from B-29 No 2263. Well, if you want to drop a 44,000 lb bomb from a B-29 you need a Looney to do it.

Later they had two of these lumps loaded on a B-36 that dropped the first from 35,000 ft and then climbed to 40,000 ft to drop the second.

These trials were described in a paper by Dr. W.S.Coker, Air University Review March_April 1967.

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1967/mar-apr/coker.html

Operation Ruby, dropping big bombs on big lumps of nazi concrete was reported in Flight Magazine May 30th 1946.

https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1946/1946%20-%201045.html

Edit: Link appears to work fine now. Must have been something wrong at the other end.

Edited July 14, 2016 by 303sqn

[cocky05d]

Did you produce this Cocky? Either way, I like it!!

DC

Hi ,nothing to do with me ,one time i was looking on the interweb for strange aircraft and this one of of the things that popped up.