Talk:Bouncing bomb

message: You do not win the Victoria Cross. You are awarded the Victoria Cross. 143.81.252.12 14:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

message: The article currently has a line "In May 1943, Operation Chastise attacked dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley -- two were breached "with limited effect".[10]"
However, the wikipedia article on Operation Chastise goes on at some length about how the Chastise dam breaches had major effects included major consequences for Germany's food supply. Either this article's line or the Operation Chastise article is wrong. Also, the wikilink from "with limited effect" in this article's line goes to Operation Crossbow, not to Operation Chastise.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.140.148.4 (talk) 16:32, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems partly to have been addressed with "variously described as", but I've looked and see no obvious relevance in the wikilinks to the Operation Crossbow article, so I'll remove them. Nortonius (talk) 22:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Operation Chastise line doesn't make sense

message: Coming to this article knowing v little about the subject, I'm confused by the fact that, in the article, the "Highball" version is said to be spherical, and the "Upkeep" version cylindrical; yet, in the photograph of the prototype recovered from Reculver and now on display in Herne Bay, the caption clearly states that this is a "Highball", despite the fact that it's cylindrical. Could someone straighten this out please - I would like to know, for the Reculver article. Thanks.
BTW, I remember seeing at least one of these cylindrical prototypes, just like the one in the museum, in muddy areas inland of the sea wall at Reculver, when I used to holiday there regularly with my family in the latter half of the 1960s - curiously, this is precisely where the "prototype" seems to be heading in the "artist's impression", in the museum display. See also archive footage of testing at  for broadband,  for dialup, where the prototype goes clear over the sea wall! Were the prototypes really dredged up from the sea bed in the 1990s, or were they picked from the mud, inland of the sea wall? I wonder! Nortonius (talk) 08:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Contemporary film of the Highball tests with the word 'Store'  - "backspin of store" - used in caption here:   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 15:33, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, very interesting footage. About "store" though, the point is that this was just a general term for "bomb", i.e. not part of the bomb's name. Nortonius (talk) 16:18, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highball or Upkeep? 

message: As I remained confused about the issues raised by me above, and no-else has piped up about them, I thought I'd look into them myself. The more I did so, the more confusion and errors I found. The result is, I've just uploaded a major re-write of the article. It won't be perfect, but hopefully it's an improvement. Nortonius (talk) 17:13, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
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message: ... but according to the relevant Wikipedia article, a "ricochet is a rebound, bounce or skip off a surface, particularly in the case of a projectile."  Is this a distinction without a difference? Moletrouser (talk) 18:46, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: InterestingI suspect imprecise language in the Ricochet article, but I'm no physicist, so I'm not going to start looking there: instead I've made this edit, which I hope answers your question. The information I've added may be a bit too much detail on ricochet here, but, as I say, I'm not going to start fiddling with the Ricochet article. Cheers. Nortonius (talk) 20:04, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bouncing bombs do not "bounce", but "ricochet"... 

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