Ya, but you guys have to remember you are talking two different things; Weight, and explosive power. Also payload includes crew, ammo, and fuel as well as the bombs.
A 22,000# has the equivalent power of 22,000# of TNT it does not weigh 22,000#. Just as a 5 megaton atomic bomb does not weight 5,000,000 tons. Now wouldn't that take some airplane to lift? A 6000 pound load of bombs was probably about 24 1000# bombs (I am too lazy to check on the exact numbers but I seem to recall that a WWII 1000# bomb weighted abut 250#). Adam Maas wrote: > Bob Blakely wrote: >> From: http://www.warbirdalley.com/ >> >> B-17G, 17,600 pounds of bombs. >> Lancaster Mk I, Fourteen 1,000 pound bombs. >> B-24, 12,800 lb. maximum bomb load >> >> Bomb load could be traded for ceiling and/or range with all these. For >> example, B-17 typically flew with 6000 pounds of bombs to gain range and >> altitude. On a clear day, the B-17 could be quite accurate from 30,000 ft. >> >> Gotta compare them operating under the same conditions. >> >> Regards, >> Bob... > > Neither the B-17 nor the B-24 ever operated with bombloads greater than > 8000lbs, their max loads were very theoretical. The Lancaster B1 Special > dropped 41 22,000lb bombs during operational missions in 1945. > > -Adam > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
