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Program Title: Airborne Assault
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions (A23) and (D48)
Telecast Date & Time: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 9.00 p.m.
We investigate the kite bomb - a never before built medieval siege weapon that dropped bombs from a kite over cities. We build one and test it with startling new insights and success. We investigate ancient bouncing bombs that actually skip across water - the fore-runners of the famous Dam Buster projectiles - that terrorised shipping in Turkey in 1453. We learn the secrets of ancient China's whistling arrows - used by commanders to direct the flow of a battle. We investigate the world's earliest rocket-powered explosive missile from the ancient battlefields of China We drop an ancient experimenter 6000 feet from a balloon with only a pair of umbrellas. We build the earliest known successful parachute and drop a skydiver from 6000 feet in one of the most dramatic and successful tests we've ever done.