BUILDING A COOPER BOMB RACK

摘要

Hanging some ordnance under a warbird certainly increases the interest. All the more so if it can be made to work. (Up to a point of course - no explosives involved!) And that is what this article is all about. The example used is a WW1 Cooper bomb rack with four '20 pounders'. But the basic principle could be adapted for any bomb release system - and even parachutes or toffees! The bomb rack was soldered up from tin plate, thin brass tube and strip, and the bombs were turned from obeche with thin ply fins. I moulded scale nose cones from rubber, just to be on the safe side, but these proved not to be fuel proof and soon turned to a sticky mess. I replaced them with self-adhesive rubber feet from Maplin. The fuse arming vanes are simply cut from tin plate and soldered to a pin so they are easily removed before flying.