A Bomber
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
A bomber is flying along, everything is working properly, and when he presses the button for the bomb to drop, nothing happens.
Why is this?
HintWhat force does a bomb, not a missile, use to fall? Sometimes pilots get disorientated.
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Answer
The bomber was upside-down.
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Comments
supermew30 
Dec 22, 2001
| Or maybe there wasno bomb.... |
j_anukis
Jun 05, 2002
| if he was upside-down, and he released the bomb..... then the bomb would have armed itself....
i think the bomber would have gotten blown up, heh heh |
electronjohn 
Nov 12, 2002
| Yes I think the bomber would have been blown up too. The bomb would fall toward the ceiling of the bomber if the plane was flying upside down and would have a good chance of going off. Also bombers do not drop there load unless they have a visual or radar reading that tells them they are over there target. In either case they would notice that they were flying upside down. |
liquidblue
May 11, 2003
| don't know what country you people are from, but the arms that hold a bomb inside of a bomber act much like your hand. if they were opened while the plane was upside down they would just rest in the arms. it would be like holding a pencil in your hand and opening it. |
adoontourious
May 19, 2003
| LOL i like it... more of those... i like em |
jimbo 
Nov 11, 2003
| Some bombs are attached to wing mounts. If these are released, the bomb would be ripped away from the wing by air resistance and fall anyway. |
SPUTNIK2
Jan 31, 2006
| that would do it! 
good one |
PineappleMama
Mar 17, 2006
| Thanks, I needed a giggle! |
perrygf 
Jun 22, 2006
| Yeah, I also thought the bomb was missing. If you'll say that "everything was working" precludes that, it could potentially preclude the pilot's disorientation as well. Still, a cute idea. Write more! |
DEJL
Sep 20, 2006
| I bet he wished he didn't do so many stunts.  |
vbguy101
Oct 01, 2006
| Uhhh.. |
vbguy101
Oct 01, 2006
| Uhhh.. |
tintiniscool
Apr 28, 2007
| I thought it was a simulation...wasn't expecting such a dramatic ending...  |
4demo
Jan 13, 2008
| I thought he'd already dropped the bomb so there was nothing to drop.  |
kimba132 
Oct 21, 2008
| and why would he be flying upside down?!?! |
jonas
Nov 13, 2008
| that could have negative effect...
BOOM! |
TZCastor 
Aug 26, 2009
| Wow. I didn't even know bombers were so agile.
Have anyone really heard or seen a upside-down bomber? |
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