Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs. Barnes Wallis was born in Ripley, Derbyshire, to general practitioner Charles George Wallis (1859–1945) and his wife Edith...

Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis, assistant chief designer, Aviation Section, Vickers-Armstrong Ltd Ursula Jeans as Mrs Molly Wallis Basil Sydney as Air...

was a concept that was invented by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis early in World War II and subsequently developed and used during the...

grew out of a concept for a bomb designed by Barnes Wallis, assistant chief designer at Vickers. Wallis had worked on the Vickers Wellesley and Vickers...

in span and accompanying operational flexibility. British engineer Barnes Wallis developed a radical aircraft configuration for high-speed flight, which...

Barnes Wallis Academy (formerly Gartree Community School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the village of Tattershall in Lincolnshire, England...

parish church. The village was the home of notable figures, such as Barnes Wallis who is buried here and Toni Mascolo. The M25 motorway is 4 miles (6...

charge. The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes Wallis, whose "Upkeep" bouncing bomb was used in the RAF's Operation Chastise...

Squadron and was modified to carry the Upkeep "bouncing bomb" designed by Barnes Wallis for Operation Chastise, the attack on German Ruhr valley dams. Although...

aircraft designer Barnes Wallis while at Vickers-Armstrongs for a large strategic bomber. This aircraft was to have performed what Wallis referred to as...

extraordinary size and weight such as the 10-ton Grand Slam could be carried. Barnes Wallis, deputy chief aircraft designer at Vickers, spent much time thinking...

research unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed and flown by designer Barnes Wallis for his research into tailless variable-sweep aircraft incorporating...

bomber, intended for high altitude flight. The Windsor was designed by Barnes Wallis and Rex Pierson at the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Brooklands. Three...

Earnest (1952), The Dambusters (1954) with his portrayal of the inventor Barnes Wallis, 1984 (1956), Time Without Pity (1957), for which he was nominated for...

shipping and fortifications. In World War II, the British designer Barnes Wallis, already famous for inventing the bouncing bomb, designed two bombs...

The Barnes Wallis Building/Wright Robinson Hall is a university building in central Manchester. It forms part of the campus of the former University of...

Biko building and should be completed by 2018. The Barnes Wallis Building, named after Barnes Wallis, is situated on the former UMIST Campus (now North...

across water; designed to attack German dams in World War II. April 1942 Barnes Wallis United Kingdom Bunker buster A bunker buster is used to penetrate targets...

Books. pp. 616–618. ISBN 978-0-14-100348-1. Flower, Stephen (2004). Barnes Wallis' Bombs. Tempus. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-7524-2987-8. Marc Buggeln. "Neuengamme...

the airframes of aircraft developed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis in the 1930s (who sometimes spelt it "geodesic"). Earlier, it was used...

was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. At...

1940, the Vickers-Armstrongs Design Department (including Rex Pierson, Barnes Wallis and several hundred others) was dispersed to a secret location at the...

The Vickers Swallow was a supersonic aircraft project headed by Barnes Wallis, working at the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs. It was a wing-controlled...

Tallboy and Grand Slam weapons developed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis during the Second World War: a hardened, highly aerodynamic bomb of...

from 20,000 ft (6,100 m), ten ton earthquake bombs (also invented by Barnes Wallis) named "Grand Slam", which, unusually for the time, were delivered from...

possibly five parasite fighter aircraft. Vickers' design team was led by Barnes Wallis, who had extensive experience of rigid airship design and later became...

Allied bombing campaign against Germany. During the Second World War, Barnes Wallis developed two large "earthquake" bombs for the Royal Air Force: the...

charge. The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes Wallis, whose "Upkeep" bouncing bomb was used in the RAF's Operation Chastise...

Vickers-Armstrongs, led by Commander Dennis Burney. The design team was headed by Barnes Wallis, later famous for his invention of the bouncing bomb. The design team...

(3,000 kg) of Torpex; The Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs designed by Barnes Wallis also used Torpex. RDX is believed to have been used in many bomb plots...