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How Did Barnes Implement Geodesic Design

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Barnes started working as aircraft engineer in 1913 at Vickers – Royal Naval Air Service were he aided to design rigid airships such as the R.23 and the R.26 both had a high gas capacity as well as were rapid. In 1917 Wallis designed the R.80, which was introduced and accepted at once. Following by the design of many others successful airships such as the R.100 and R.101., stated Alfred Pugsley and N. E. Rowe (1981). Moreover, this brilliant engineer was the first to implement geodesic design in engineering which was used in the development of the Wellesley and Wellington bombers. Above all, Barnes most well-known invention was the bouncing bomb used in the Operation Chastise that took place during the Second World War, in May, 1943 where two

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