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    The Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS) is the canonical vector bombsight, the first practical system for properly accounting for the effects of wind when...
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    First World War–era Course Setting Bomb Sight in 1942. The Mk. XIV was essentially an automated version of the Course Setting sight, using a mechanical...
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    stabilization. World War I bomb sight designs had improved rapidly, with the ultimate development being the Course Setting Bomb Sight, or CSBS. This was essentially...
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    as well. In British service, Wimperis' Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS) started replacing the Drift Sight in 1917, but it remained in widespread use in...
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  • includes gun turrets, bomb sights and radios used in RAF bombers. Nash & Thompson gun turrets Course Setting Bomb Sight Mark XIV bomb sight R1155 "Defending...
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    was semi-automated in the Course Setting Bomb Sight of late World War I vintage. To use such a vector bombsight, the bomb aimer first requires an accurate...
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    Bombsight (redirect from Bomb sight)
    direction of the wind or the bomb run. The result was the Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS), called "the most important bomb sight of the war". Dialling in...
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  • equip its bomber aircraft. It was a development of the British Course Setting Bomb Sight, or CSBS, which had been introduced in UK service in early 1918...
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    Specific bomb loads were standardised and given code names by Bomber Command: Bombsights used on Lancasters included: Mark IX Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS)...
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  • national badminton team CSBS, a synonym for the protein/gene FLNA Course Setting Bomb Sight Cloud Server Backup Service, offered by Bangladesh Computer Council...
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    the bombs. The system was later improved with the Course Setting Bomb Sight, and reached a climax with World War II bomb sights, Mark XIV bomb sight (RAF...
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  • such as the Course Setting Bomb Sight. In limited visibility or when the target did not have a clearly distinguishing landmark, accurate bombing was very...
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    radiator through the open panel would prevent the bomb aimer from using the Mk. VII Course Setting Bomb Sight. The armament and crew of the aircraft were similar...
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  • development of the Drift Sight and Course Setting Bomb Sight during World War I, devices that revolutionised the art of bombing. Wimperis was born on 27...
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    position for bombing missions was also provisioned for, which included a watertight hatch and a hinged course-setting bomb sight. The bomb fusing controls...
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    vertical metal rods on the left side of the sight. This system was originally designed for the Course Setting Bomb Sight, and reused for the Mk. XIV, and now...
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    lack of useful bombsights. At the time, the RAF was using the Course Setting Bomb Sight (CSBS), originally developed in World War I for aircraft flying...
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    target, which made it impossible to set the Mark IX Course Setting Bomb Sight correctly, since this sight required a long, straight and level run-up to target...
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    A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed to bounce to a target across water in a calculated manner to avoid obstacles such as torpedo nets, and to allow both...
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    time, or setting "trail", the distance the bombs will fall behind the aircraft due to differences in ballistics between bomb designs. Course 1919, p. 150...
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    Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons...
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    Ted Kaczynski (redirect from 1-800-701-BOMB)
    weekend, Kaczynski mailed a bomb to David Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale University. Gelernter lost sight in one eye, hearing in one ear...
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    the bombe, substantially reducing the number of incorrect rotor settings that the bombes found. The notches in the alphabet rings of rotors I to V were...
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  • revealed and the detectives bring the culprit to justice. 40 5 "Second Sight" Richard Holthouse Tony Etchells 23 January 2005 (2005-01-23) October–November...
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  • manages to wrestle the bomb from Joe, detonates ROK with it, and successfully regains manual control of the ship, setting course for the Moon as originally...
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    was still in sight. After a further hour the English coast came into view, revealing that the Gothas were around 40 mi (64 km) off course. With barely...
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    bomber in a formation actually utilized the Norden sight, the rest of the formation dropping their bombs only when they saw the lead aircraft's bombload...
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    Oboe was a British bomb aiming system developed to allow their aircraft to bomb targets accurately in any type of weather, day or night. Oboe coupled radar...
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  • electro-optical bomb (or camera bomb) was reintroduced. They were equipped with television cameras and flare sights, by which the bomb would be steered...
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    M16 rifle (section Sights)
    the dialed in windage setting on a windage scale at the rear of the rear sight assembly. When the normal use rear aperture sight is zeroed at 300 m with...
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