Comment Re:I thought the Dam Busters were American... (Score 1) 175
What the animation didn't show is that the bombs had to be spun up counter clockwise before they were dropped, to get them to bounce on the water. The Lancaster bombers had their bomb bays modified with the mechanism to do this, basically a giant chain and sprocket. Just think about skipping flat rocks on the water, the more spin the more bounces.
