GBP ONLY per copy includes shipping
UK £18.50 SPTA MEMBERS £15
Other countries please email for prices
UK DEFENCE ACADEMY LONGBOW TESTS Series 1
We were very fortunate to work in cooperation with the Bashforth Laboratories at the Ministry of Defence College Shrivenham, who allowed us to use their range and equipment to record bow performance and carry out material analysis.
The report by Dr D Whetham & P Bourke which resulted
from these tests has now been accepted for publication by
'Arms & Armour', April 2007 (Issue 4, Vol. 1)
This has sold very successfully to all those genuinely interested in the war bow's performance including archers academics and historians
It is not a commercial DVD sucha as 'Kevin
Hood' but a unique record of scientific test proceedings and results.
There is no voiceover or music.
It includes footage including slowmotion film you will see nowhere
else!
GBP ONLY per copy includes shipping
UK £18.50 SPTA MEMBERS £15
Other countries please email for prices
Longbow tests series 1 order.pdf
Get a copy of the first widely available film of tests updating information on the performance of the English longbow - the first of a proposed series of comprehensive trials which will prove of interest to archers and historians alike.
Also included: on CD two reports on the results including information on armour.
Penetration tests: arrows fitted with medieval type heads are shot from a 140 lb draw-weight 'english' longbow at flesh simulating targets faced with iron plates of differing thickness and composition- includes slow motion impact footage.
Paradox tests: slow motion footage of different bow and arrow combinations indicate bow and shaft behaviour on loosing. This is the first of a planned set of tests to record arrow behaviour in various profile, bow weight & drawlength configurations at both bow and target.
Laboratory tests: filmed in slow motion to compare laboratory conditions with real bow testing and assess impact energies.
Flight/radar tests: slow motion footage and distances achieved with different arrowheads.
The SECOND SERIES took place August 2006 and a DVD will
become available next year.
Sorry for the delay - but it is taking time to edit -it will be worth waiting
for!!