Look up Tallboy or tallboy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tallboy or tall boy may refer to: Tallboy (bomb), a British deep penetration earthquake...

Tallboy or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal...

A tallboy is a piece of furniture incorporating a chest of drawers and a wardrobe on top. A highboy consists of double chest of drawers (a chest-on-chest)...

of the Second World War. The bomb was originally called Tallboy Large until the term Tallboy got into the press and the code name was replaced by "Grand...

On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. Spankers are also called driver, jigger...

is "murder your thirst". The drink is sold in a 16.9 US fl oz (500 ml) "tallboy" drink can and a 19.2 US fl oz (570 ml) can. As of 2023, its water is canned...

Wallis made bombs based on the "earthquake bomb concept", such as the 6-ton Tallboy and then the 10-ton Grand Slam, although these were never dropped from...

torpedoes, naval mines, and depth charges, Torpex was only used in the Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs as well as the drones employed in Operation Aphrodite...

effect similar to the underground detonation of the later Grand Slam and Tallboy earthquake bombs, both of which he also invented. After the outbreak of...

1944, British Lancaster bombers equipped with 12,000-pound (5,400 kg) "Tallboy" bombs scored two direct hits and a near miss which caused the ship to...

further development of the concept initiated with the United Kingdom's Tallboy and Grand Slam weapons developed by British aeronautical engineer Barnes...

the next pub is the letter for the week – as provided by Tallboy. Wimsey is sure that Tallboy killed Victor Dean, but he does not want to act until the...

by RJM Distributing. The product is sold in 12 fl-oz glass bottles and tallboy 16 fl-oz cans covered in flat retro branding featuring a baseball diamond...

VPP suspension on a 2013 Santa Cruz Tallboy...

400 kg), ground-penetrating Tallboy bombs. The external construction works were completely wrecked by the bombing and one Tallboy landed just beside the dome...

contradistinction to (and designed to match) the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers. Lowboys and tallboys were favorite pieces of the 18th century, both...

failed to scramble in time and Tirpitz was sunk in ten minutes by two Tallboy bombs. Luftwaffe ace Heinrich Ehrler was originally stripped of command...

beyond the 750 mph (1,210 km/h) free-fall impact velocity of the 5-tonne Tallboy "earthquake" bomb for comparable purposes. The Disney could penetrate 16 ft...

bases, which were impervious to Allied bombing until mid-1944 when the Tallboy bomb became available. From early July, U-boats returned to the new French...

trays, were frequent. During a large portion of the 18th century, the tallboy was much used for storing clothes. A common feature was to base future...

each carried a single large earthquake bomb – seven carried the 5 ton 'Tallboy', thirteen carried the 10 ton 'Grand Slam'. Two 'Grand Slam's hit the target...

Introduction", pp. xi–xxix in Sommerstein, A. H., Fitzpatrick, D.. and Tallboy, T. Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays: Volume 1. Aris and Phillips...

for which some Lancasters were adapted to carry the 12,000 lb (5,400 kg) Tallboy and then the 22,000 lb (10,000 kg) Grand Slam earthquake bombs (also designed...

specialist and precision-bombing role, including the use of the enormous "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" ground-penetrating earthquake bombs, on targets such...

Rambo kills some of them by luring them toward a booby-trapped unexploded Tallboy bomb, but the rest of Tint's forces capture everyone except Rambo, Sarah...

M-110, 22,376 lb (10,150 kg) Grand Slam copy, or two 12,660 lb (5,740 kg) Tallboy copies and numerous nuclear weapons. Aerial refueling Related development...

employed Avro Lancaster heavy bombers armed with Tallboy heavy bombs and "Johnnie Walker" mines. The Tallboy bomb weighed 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg) and had...

the fictional country home of Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet Tallboy (disambiguation) This page lists people with the surname Tailboys. If an...

become the conceptual predecessors of modern bunker busters: the five tonne Tallboy and the ten tonne Grand Slam. These were "Earthquake" bombs—a concept he...

evacuated the following day. 19 April 1945 36 Lancasters of 9 and 617 Squadrons attacked coastal battery positions with Tallboy bombs for no losses....