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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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • as President Calhoun Rosemarie DeWitt as Daphne Campbell Mason Dye as Bombsight Jared Padalecki Paul Reiser as The Legend Daveed Diggs Misha Collins On...
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  • The Glasgow Army Airfield Norden Bombsight Vault was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a one-story 16.5 by 13 feet (5...
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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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    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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    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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    The AN/APQ-7, or Eagle, was a radar bombsight system developed by the US Army Air Force. Early studies started in late 1941 under the direction of Luis...
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    Bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden Bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of the Little Boy...
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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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  • 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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    develop new bombsights that would allow the aircraft to remain at higher altitudes. The most notable was the US Navy's Norden bombsight, which was fitted...
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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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  • the number of bombers would have to be prohibitively large. The Norden bombsight, tested in 1933, held the promise of much greater accuracy in high altitude...
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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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    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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    of the top secret Norden bombsight. Ritter achieved several major successes with the Abwehr, most notably the Norden bombsight, in addition to an advanced...
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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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    variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, bombsights, analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights. In the post-WWII era...
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    in his 2005 book The Flying Circus: Pacific War—1943—As Seen through A Bombsight. After the war, he made his home in Weatherford, where he joined partners...
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    built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. They were fitted with a prismatic Bombsight in the front cockpit and a cylindrical bomb carrier in the lower forward...
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  • control meant that the bombardier still had to accurately release it with a bombsight to ensure it could not fall short of or beyond the target. The "tail package"...
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    swept-back fenders were fitted to sedans and coupes, and a war-inspired "bombsight" hood ornament was adopted. The instrument panel was two-toned with woodgrain...
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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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