Victory Bomber

The Victory Bomber was a Second World War design proposal by the British inventor and aircraft designer Barnes Wallis, working at Vickers-Armstrongs, for a very large six-engined strategic bomber. It was meant to fly what Wallis called anti-civil engineering missions against targets in Germany, carrying his 22,000 lb earthquake bomb from 40,000 feet, a load and a height that no aircraft of the day could manage. As planned it had a wingspan of 172 feet, a gross weight of 104,000 lb and six Rolls-Royce Merlin or Bristol Hercules piston engines. The design was studied in detail and reached wind tunnel testing, but the Air Ministry ended it in May 1941 before any prototype was built. The Avro Lancaster later carried Wallis bombs such as Tallboy and Grand Slam.