• The Bombsight, Pilot-Directing, Mark III was an inter-war era bombsight developed by the US Navy to equip its bomber aircraft. It was a development of...
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    known as the Mark III. It was already realized that one major source of error in bombing was levelling the aircraft enough so the bombsight pointed straight...
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    A bombsight is a device used by military aircraft to drop bombs accurately. Bombsights, a feature of combat aircraft since World War I, were first found...
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    The Mark XIV Bomb Sight was a bombsight developed by Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command during the Second World War. It was also known as the Blackett...
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    and was soon changed in favour of more advanced designs. Mark XIV bombsight A vector bombsight where the bomb aimer input details of the bombload, target...
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    more accurate than the US Navy's Mark III or the Army's Mk. I, and twice as accurate as the older Michelin bombsight designs. A series of minor updates...
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    navigation trainers. A total of 63 were built at Weybridge. Fitted with Sperry bombsight. The B.VI's high-altitude fuselage design optimised for pressurisation...
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    battleships directed their last rounds in combat. An early use of fire-control systems was in bomber aircraft, with the use of computing bombsights that accepted...
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  • Masters of the Air (category Television shows directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga)
    Dee Rees was announced as directing episodes of the series. In July, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck were also announced as directing episodes. Colleen Atwood...
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    followed by British pilots reporting submarines diving as the aircraft began to approach. A new design based on H2S, ASV Mk. III, was rushed to service...
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    lasting seconds. As such, there was no time for the pilot to look up from the instruments to a bombsight. This led to the concept of a "Strike Sight" that...
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    Norden bombsight with a makeshift aiming sight devised by pilot Capt. C. Ross Greening that was dubbed the "Mark Twain". The materials for this bombsight cost...
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    Guy Gibson (category British World War II bomber pilots)
    held a conference with the pilots to explain the tactical aspects. They flew a rehearsal that evening with Gibson directing a group by radio telephony...
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    turret, which reduced the B-24s vulnerability to head-on attacks. The bombsight was located below the turret. Long-range naval patrol versions often carried...
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    Most production versions had a metal nose with no windows. A K-series bombsight provided integrated radar navigation and visual navigation, the optical...
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    account. In October 2024, it was announced that Mason Dye had been cast as Bombsight for the fifth and final season. Although situated in New York City as...
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    test pilot Leslie R. Tower was behind the pilots in an advisory role. Also on board were Wright Field test observer John Cutting and mechanic Mark Koegler...
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  • Following the production of the 600 lb depth bomb, a Mark III angular-velocity, low-level bombsight was developed. At the eighth meeting of the Anti-Submarine...
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    high-altitude bombing using armor-piercing bombs. Developments such as the Norden bombsight further fueled these concerns. While the design of the Iowas was too far...
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    visual bomb-aimer's compartment could be fitted with a T4 (Blue Devil) bombsight, in many B.2s, this space housed a vertically mounted Vinten F95 Mk.10...
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    five-minute bombing run, Martin had to fly within the tolerances of its SABS bombsight, within 0.5 mph (0.80 km/h) of airspeed and +/- 10 ft (3.0 m) of altitude...
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    which was provisioned with a bombsight, driftsight, and other appropriate instrumentation, including a landing light. The pilot was located in a cockpit behind...
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  • researchers developed an improved bombsight for naval bombers. This may have been the Low Level Bombsight, Mark III, designed by Bomber Command's Operational...
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    included a bombsight computer, known as "Micestro", to determine the proper release time; there was no particular logic in carrying the bombsight on the Mosquito...
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    included gyroscope-based and other complex control systems for gunsight, bombsight, and inertial navigation under Charles Stark Draper's Instrumentation...
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    reach targets, protected by its own weapons, and bomb, using the Norden bombsight, with "pickle barrel" accuracy. Japanese aviation pioneers felt that they...
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    Airport. Pilot Kevin Moorhouse and engineer Steve Watson were both killed in the crash. At the time, this was the last airworthy Mosquito, a T.III.  Australia...
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    mechmachtheory.2007.07.003. hdl:10261/30460. ISSN 0094-114X. "Norden M9 Bombsight". National Museum of the USAF. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29...
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    techniques. A small number of bomb-aimers were to use their Lotfernrohr 7 bombsights on individual flares to increase the accuracy of the attack. The attack...
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  • In tests, Oboe demonstrated accuracies greater than those of optical bombsights during daylight in good weather. Oboe was limited to one aircraft because...
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