Author Topic: Bombs not arming when low - not always... (Read 616 times)

BenDover · « **Reply #15 on:** March 21, 2003, 09:37:47 AM »

I'm sorry if my dyslexia is bothering you

Btw, I'm better at the other 2 areas of science, Biology and Chemistry, physics is my weak point

But what i'm trying to say is like this, 2 people cross the road at the same speed, but at different angles to the curb.

One at 20 degrees, the other at 50 degrees, which one reaches the other curb first?

If you said 20 degrees, correct. This is because its a shorter distance for him than the guy going at 50 degrees, everyone agree up till here?.....

Now then, if one plane is going 400 mph, and another is going 250 mph, doesn't the faster one's bombs go at a bigger angle from the verticle than the one going 250 mph?

ccvi · « **Reply #16 on:** March 21, 2003, 11:52:33 AM »

BenDover, discussion isn't about flight paths of bombs but what variable makes them arm.

If you want to show off present how to calculate the length of the flight path of the bomb, then solve the integral.

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 21, 2003, 07:34:21 PM »

HT has said eggs have to TRAVEL 1000ft minimum to arm and explode. This was done to stop bomb laden craft from being suicide aircraft when map room was on the fields instead of towns. Guys would drive said craft to c47 or m3 release bombs and kill goon and themselves but stop capture.

ps:
As for other discussion

, a bullet fired out of a barrel and 1 dropped at same height and time as fired 1 will hit the ground at exact same time. Gravity has same effect on all objects. But fired 1 will of course have travelled more distance, albeit horizontal.

SirLoin · « **Reply #18 on:** March 22, 2003, 06:51:48 AM »

9.8m/s/s

Unless someone has invented a new phisics model...

BenDover · « **Reply #19 on:** March 22, 2003, 02:03:50 PM »

For the last f00king time!

I'm not saying stuff falls slower if it goes forward faster, I must of worded it badly....

I was just trying to say (in a long way) that a bomb going forward goes a longer distance than one going straight down

pugg666 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 22, 2003, 08:06:55 PM »

Quote

As for other discussion , a bullet fired out of a barrel and 1 dropped at same height and time as fired 1 will hit the ground at exact same time. Gravity has same effect on all objects. But fired 1 will of course have travelled more distance, albeit horizontal.

falcon, your forgeting a whee bit of initial acceleration( gunpowder )

empty · « **Reply #21 on:** March 22, 2003, 09:07:51 PM »

and following up the bullet analogy, the round fired (assuming it was fired flat) may cover 300-yds before falling 3-feet, where as the second dropped bullet fell the same 3-feet in the same time.

the difference being the 300+yds travelled.

this analogy works best in a vacuum of course.