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The Hangar Aug 2, 2026

Operation Chastise, the Dambusters, and the Bouncing Bomb Barnes Wallis Skipped Across a Reservoir to Break the Ruhr Dams

How the Dambusters used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach Germany's Ruhr dams in 1943 - the physics, the flying, and the cost.

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The Hangar Jul 29, 2026

Operation Chastise, Barnes Wallis's Bouncing Bomb, and the Night Six-Seventeen Squadron Skipped a Weapon Across the Ruhr to Break the Dams

How 617 Squadron used Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb to breach the Ruhr dams in 1943's Operation Chastise.

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The Hangar May 3, 2026

Just Jane the Avro Lancaster and the two brothers who bought an airfield to honor the one who never came home

The story of Just Jane, the Avro Lancaster that two Lincolnshire brothers spent decades restoring to honor their brother lost over Nuremberg in 1944.

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