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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • as President Calhoun Rosemarie DeWitt as Daphne Campbell Mason Dye as Bombsight Jared Padalecki Paul Reiser as The Legend Daveed Diggs On May 14, 2024...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    patent claims were made, among them the first gyroscopically stabilized bombsight, which Seversky developed with Sperry Gyroscope Company in 1923. After...
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  • Roper (based on the spy Herman Lang who delivered the top secret Norden bombsight to Germany) Leo G. Carroll as Col. Hammersohn (inspired by the spy ring...
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    fire-control systems was in bomber aircraft, with the use of computing bombsights that accepted altitude and airspeed information to predict and display...
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    purpose of the Bombardier College was to train young men to use the Norden bombsight. The first group of cadets, Class 42–6, arrived for training from Ellington...
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    Mischgerät (V-2 guidance computer) MONIAC, economic modelling Nomogram Norden bombsight Rangekeeper, and related fire control computers Scanimate SR-71 inlet...
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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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    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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    Norden M2WS bombsight...
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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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  • (or A.P.) refers to holding the intersection of the cross hairs on a bombsight when fixed at a specific target. An indirect fire aiming point provides...
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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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  • 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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  • happiness and spaghetti sauce (TED2004) The strange tale of the Norden bombsight (TEDGlobal 2011) The unheard story of David and Goliath (TEDSalon NY2013)...
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