Here is a crude video put together from our first Fantasy Camp prototype event a year ago with the Collings Foundation. This was more of a recreation of a WWII mission than an actual Bomber Crew School which we are doing now.
Wayne shot the video from the back of the P-51C. Other air to air was shot from the Twin Beech. Mark shot the great bomb drop video while strapped into a harness and he stood on the catwalk between the bomb racks.
Notice the first bomb how it starts spinning and wobbling. This was our first attempt at making bombs (out of concrete) and we hadn't figured out how to secure the fins. The fin group loosened up and you sure can see the results.
I had a friend put my own video camera on a tripod next to the target truck. I figured since I was aiming at the truck and this was my first time using a Norden Bombsight that the target was the safest place in the whole area!
If you can, turn up the audio and listen to the sound of the bombs as they rush in just before they hit the ground. It is awesome. The only thing missing was the boom noise at the end.
We are now taking sign ups for our WWII Bomber Crew Fantasy Camp. You can learn all about the different crew positions in a WWII B-17 or B-24 and then you will learn gunnery and train just like they did in WWII. First with a WWII shotgun aiming at clay pigeons and then trying to hit the moving target from the turret truck and finally live fire with a 50 cal.
The next day you get checked out in the ball turret ground trainer, load up the bombs and fly a mission. You can: shoot the 50's in the waist at the attacking Messerschmidt 262 German Jet, take the ball turret for a spin in the air and try to hit the target with the Norden Bomb Sight.
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/bomber-camp-2016-battle-bombers.html
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