Effects of Releasing Heavy Stuff
Dropped the first dummy10,000 pounder from a Vulcan Mk1 for clearance purposes.
Expected more aircraft reaction. It was only a momentary small g excursion - hardly felt.
Watched that big mother go out of the weapon bay on closed circuit video as it dropped away gently rocking in pitch.
The drop of an extraction 20,000 pound load from a C130 was more of an event but still only transitory as the load rolled down the fuselage and over the ramp.
Then as a fighter jock I once dropped one of two 500 pounders from a Mustang in a 60 degree dive bomb attack on a T34 tank. The recovery from the dive came real close to doing me in. But I got the tank!