RC servo which can be remotely triggered from the cockpit or even a hidden buddy on the ground.
What is the best bag and weight for a flour bomb? Is there a spec with a max or min, does each contest set its own rule, or is it all an ad hoc exercise - the bigger the better? If you are mixing flour and sand (sand for deadweight), what volume ratio? Sand may be somewhat cheaper, maybe, but why not just a bigger bag and more flour? What's the story, you bomber pilots?
..... He stated that in the absence of the current pumpkin ballistics tables he would not be of much help!
Ah, yes, DHS probably has most of us on this forum on their lists for numerous reasons...
I added short vidoe of bomb door operation
I added short vidoe of bomb door operation
Jim Knight
Burlington Iowa
RV 6 500 hours
I cannot find an 'official' flour bomb specification. However, when we did it last year, it was a simple brown paper lunch sack with about 2 cups of flour inside. Wrap the excess bag material on around the flour lump and secure with a piece of masking tape. Mark the bag with a Sharpie with the pilot's handle (name) so when the ground crew measures the distance from the center of the target to the point of impact, they know who gets the credit. Pilots fly over the target at a pre-arranged altitude, typically between 500 and 1000 feet AGL. Low wing airplanes are at an obvious disadvantage, unless additional measures are taken, hence, this thread.
I'm wondering if you could put a plexi window in the cockpit floor of an -8, just big enough to sight a target on a bomb run. Then I could fashion one (or two) bombays in the cargo section and be able to tar (flour) and feather (TP) all "enemy bases" near my home. If the plexi proves to be too difficult (most likely will, although I haven't looked at the cockpit plans yet) I guess I'll just have to perfect the "pop" maneuver.
Oh, what fun awaits...
I have given this much thought over the years but haven't tried building anything.
My thought was a "bomb rack" that could attached to the tiedown hard point and use some type of relay to drop the flower sack (Or pumpkin) and would be removable.
My thinking is that you will have to limit your top speed to keep from ripping the sack open.
Whatever you do, go all out! Drop an entire sack of flour!
I build a 5 tube rocket launcher for Estes D series single stage rockets that mounted there. Never had the guts to try it
I added short vidoe of bomb door operation
Jim Knight
Burlington Iowa
RV-6
I build a 5 tube rocket launcher for Estes D series single stage rockets that mounted there. Never had the guts to try it
I have thought about doing this too! I think it would be cool even if just cosmetic - would be fun to drop into a fly-in with external stores...
Just go to Costco, everybody's doing it there.I miss chasing TP