was William hirons involved with the making of the bouncing bomb?

Answer 1

Barnes Willis was the sole inventor of the Bouncing Bomb!

"While he could not have done this work without the assistance of the British armament industry every retelling of the development of this weapon seems to imply that he was the sole inspiration behind the building of these bombs."

What utter rot is stated in the above quote; Barnes did the work himself, most of it in his own lab, if anything he was hindered along the way trying to prove it would work by the old boy network that controlled the British Arms Industry.

Anything new and unconventional in the armament industry was viewed with lots of suspicion.

Answer 2

The inventor of the 'bouncing bomb' was Barnes Wallace.

The only Wm. Hirons I know of is this one : -

British Olympic Association > Athletes > William Hirons William Hirons. Olympic Record. Olympic Record. London 1908 · London 1908 · Track and Field Unknown. Other Details. Date of Birth: 15 Jun 1871 ...
http://www.olympics.org.uk/athlete.aspx?at=1636

Barnes Wallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBarnes Wallis was born in Ripley, Derbyshire, and educated at Christ's Hospital in Horsham, leaving school at sixteen to start work in a shipyard. ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis

Dambusters Remembered At RAF Museum, Hendon - 24 Hour Museum ...Left: the genius behind the bouncing bomb, Sir Barnes Wallis (pictured centre), ... Right: a bouncing bomb slung beneath a Lancaster of 617 Squadron. ...
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART16723.html

The Dambusters; 617 Squadron RAF but Australia was thereThe Inventor of the "bouncing" bomb, Barnes Wallis. Barnes Wallis, The story of 617 Squadron began with the aircraft designer Barnes Wallis who when ...
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-air-support/ww2-allied/dambusters.htm


The best way of understanding how the bouncing bomb came about and was invented, is to see the movie, "The Dam Busters".


The Dam Busters (1955)The Dam Busters on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. ... Coming back to this movie 54 years after it was made and over 60 since the events portrayed this ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889

The Dam Busters (film) - Wikipedia, The Dam Busters is a 1954 British war film, set during the Second World War, ... The movie was based on the books The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill and ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(film)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Peter Jackson to film Dam Busters - Filming on the Dam Busters remake is due to start next year ... Jackson will produce the movie, with King Kong animator Christian Rivers in the director's ...
http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5301998.stm

Answer 3

Never heard of Mr. Hirons, but Dr. Barnes Wallis was the inventor of the "bouncing bomb" used in the famous Dam Busters raid during WW2.

Answer 4

[Sir] Barnes Wallace was the inventor of the Bouncing Bombs used by the RAF's 617th Bomb Squadron to destroy several Ruhr River dams during World War II. While he could not have done this work without the assistance of the British armament industry every retelling of the development of this weapon seems to imply that he was the sole inspiration behind the building of these bombs.

So pivotal was his role in the development that he was inconsolable over the lose of the aircrews shot down in this mission.

Answer 5

Barnes Wallace was the sole inventor of the bouncing bomb, along with the "geodetic" type of aircraft construction (Wellington bomber, R101), the Earthquake bomb and in later years designed a supersonic transport aircraft, which failed to go into production.

Answer 6

Barns wallace invented it.Never heard ofWilliam hirons.

Answer 7

The first one was made of flubber, it bounced away and was never found.