Aeronca Glide Bombs

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Hi,

here is a glide bombs GB-1,GB-5 and GB-7,designed by Aeronca.

https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/crgis/images/4/41/FFT-TestLog.pdf
 

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Dilandu said:
Thanks! Very interesting photo!
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Thank you Dilandu,and I don't know if there was a Project among them or not ?.
 
Here is some footage of Aeronca GB-1 Glide Bombs ("Grapefruit Bomb") being carried and employed by B-17s in a raid on Cologne, Germany, May 28, 1944. There are some particularly close shots (7 sec mark to 19 sec mark) of a B-17G (B-17G-55-BO, USAAF Ser. No. 42-102569) carrying two GB-1s (one under each wing root).

This footage has been posted by YouTube user hw97karbine. He has apparently been combing combat and military film archives and posting footage that I have never seen before, and I imagine, has been languishing for decades unseen. I highly recommend those here to check out what he has posted in recent months.

YouTube - hw97karbine: "B-17 Flying Fortresses of 427th BS 303rd BG carrying GB-1 Glide Bombs raid Cologne on May 28th 1944"
 
Boxman said:
YouTube - hw97karbine: "B-17 Flying Fortresses of 427th BS 303rd BG carrying GB-1 Glide Bombs raid Cologne on May 28th 1944"
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Interesting... Especially this:

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The impact points are quite... in line. Maybe not perfect, but definitely not random, too. Seems that GB-1 was more underestimated, than I thought!
 

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