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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Norden Mk. XV, known as the Norden M series in U.S. Army service, is a bombsight that was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the United...
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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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Gyroscopic autopilot (redirect from Sperry bombsight)
autopilot made it possible for new bombsights to be used on military aircraft. The Norden Bombsight and Sperry Bombsight were both used onboard Army and...
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Mark XIV bomb sight (redirect from Blue Devil (bombsight))
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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Mary Babnik Brown (section Norden bombsight myth)
incorrectly claimed that her hair was used to make the crosshairs in the Norden bombsight, a myth perpetuated by notable personalities such as President Ronald...
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Lucas van Norden, was a Dutch-American engineer who invented the Norden bombsight. Norden was born in Semarang, Java. After attending a boarding school...
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Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight (category Optical bombsights)
Force bombsight used in small numbers during World War II. The system worked along similar tachometric principles as the more famous Norden bombsight, but...
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Estoppey D-series (redirect from Estoppey bombsight)
The Estoppey D-series was a line of inter-war era bombsights developed by Georges Estoppey of the US Army Air Corps' McCook Field, starting with the D-1...
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Avro Lancaster (section Bombsights)
Bomber Command: Bombsights used on Lancasters included: Mark IX Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS). This was an early preset vector bombsight that involved...
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Lotfernrohr 7 (category Optical bombsights)
was the primary series of bombsights used in most Luftwaffe level bombers, similar to the United States' Norden bombsight, but much simpler to operate...
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Andreeva, Denise Petski,Nellie (2024-10-16). "'The Boys': Mason Dye Cast As Bombsight In 5th & Final Season, Eyed For Spinoff 'Vought Rising'". Deadline. Retrieved...
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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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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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Drift Sight (category Optical bombsights)
The Drift Sight was a bombsight developed by Harry Wimperis in 1916 for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). It used a simple mechanical device to measure...
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for example, the planimeter MONIAC, economic modelling Nomogram Norden bombsight Rangekeeper, and related fire control computers Scanimate Torpedo Data...
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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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canopy, but delays in the development of the intended automatic radar bombsight resulted in the addition of a bomb aimer's position housed within the...
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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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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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the airplane during the bombing run, using a device such as the Norden bombsight which was connected to the autopilot of the plane. Often stationed in...
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The Low Level Bombsight, Mark III, sometimes known as the Angular Velocity Sight, was a Royal Air Force (RAF) bombsight designed for attacks by aircraft...
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indiscriminately[citation needed]. They claimed that by using the B-17 and the Norden bombsight, the USAAF should be able to carry out "precision bombing" on locations...
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indiscriminately. They claimed that by using the B-17 and the Norden bombsight, the USAAF should be able to carry out "precision bombing" on locations...
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The navigator/bombardier/observer position was equipped with a Type 90 bombsight, which was a long vertical tube located in the front-left of the seat...
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regulating control systems earned them military contracts for the Norden bombsight and the C-1 autopilot. In 1957, Control Data began in downtown Minneapolis...
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succession of three electro-mechanical drawing machines from modified bombsight analogue computers which were employed in World War II bombers to calculate...
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bombers to bomb from high altitudes with the aid of the then-secret Norden bombsight, known as the "Blue Ox", which was an optical electromechanical gyrostabilized...
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cabin flooring, as well as locating original equipment such as the Norden bombsight. Where authentic components were not available, realistic replicas, such...
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Around 10 to 12 will receive an upgrade including the Gefest SVP-24 bombsight for free-fall bombs, giving them a limited ground attack capability, but...
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