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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

VPP suspension on a 2013 Santa Cruz Tallboy...

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...

technical problems prevented their Tallboy from being dropped on the initial pass. Force B commenced its attack after the Tallboy Lancasters had completed theirs...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

guidance system of the earlier Razon radio-controlled weapon with a British Tallboy 12,000-pound (5,400 kg) bomb, the ASM-A-1 saw brief operational service...

damaged in these attacks. In 1944, Lancaster bombers hit the ship with two Tallboy bombs, which caused extensive internal damage and capsized the battleship...

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...

29" wheels, 100 millimetres (3.9 in) VPP Travel (Re-introduced in 2018) Tallboy/Joplin - 29" wheels, 120 millimetres (4.7 in) VPP Travel Bronson/Roubion...

Rottingdean is a village in the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. It borders the villages of Saltdean, Ovingdean and Woodingdean...

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...

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...

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...

Father of All Bombs (FOAB) GBU-43/B MOAB Grand Slam (bomb) T-12 Cloudmaker Tallboy (bomb) FAB-9000 Adam Entous; Julian E. Barnes (28 January 2012). "Pentagon...

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...