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Highballs in Loch Striven

During 1942, Barnes Wallis, an aircraft structures designer with the Vickers-Armstrongs company, developed his ‘bouncing bomb’ idea.Dropped from a low-flying aircraft, the spherical bombs would skip...

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The day of the Highball discovery in Loch Striven

‘We are looking for a black golf ball, in an area the size of two football fields. However, the fields are covered in brown cricket balls and we are doing it at night with the lights turned off’. These...

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